http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

There are scores of academic publication that are now free to read for everyone, definition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

There is a list of Open Access journals but the site seems to be down right now:

http://www.doaj.org/

There is even one set of Open Access journals going after Nature and the like: Public Library of Science

http://www.plos.org/journals/index.html

(with Nobel prizes winner, etc...)