There seemed to be a bit of a consensus in the comments board that expensive journals are a bad thing. So just to put a bit of data into the debate, here’s the pricing list for several high profile journals. (Note these prices are all in US Dollars for delivery in America. Different journals have different delivery costs to the rest of the world.)
| Journal Name | Issues per Year | Institution Price | Personal Price | Student Price |
| Analysis (Blackwell) | 4 | 73 | 33 | 22 |
| Australasian Journal of Philosophy (OUP) | 4 | 95 | 39 | 20 |
| Ethics (Chicago) | 4 | 167 | 40 | 29 |
| Journal of Philosophical Logic (Kluwer) | 6 | 540 | 124 | 124 |
| Journal of Philosophy (Columbia) | 12 | 75 | 35 | 20 |
| Linguistics and Philosophy (Kluwer) | 6 | 549 | 158 | 158 |
| Mind (OUP) | 4 | 131 | 58 | 23 |
| Mind and Language (Blackwell) | 5 | 503 | 126 | 126 |
| Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (Notre Dame) | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nous (Blackwell) | 6 | 395 | 98 | 98 |
| Philosophers’ Imprint (Michigan) | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Philosophical Quarterly (Blackwell) | 4 | 277 | 68 | 26 |
| Philosophical Review (Cornell) | 4 | 60 | 36 | 22 |
| Philosophical Studies (Kluwer) | 15 | 1322 | 575 | 575 |
| Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Brown) | 6 | 168 | 42 | 42 |
| Philosophy and Public Affairs (Princeton) | 4 | 80 | 40 | 19 |
| Synthese (Kluwer) | 15 | 1652 | 70 | 70 |
UPDATE: I updated this to include Synthese to provide some background to Brian Leiter’s comment below. If you have any anarchist types in the department, one of them could get a ‘personal’ subscription and bring it in! That wouldn’t help with the online subscription, which is what really matters now.