- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
You must log in or register to comment.
I was looking for a paper from fucking 2010 that was cited in a Wikipedia article and it was still behind a goddamn paywall.
Sci-Hub is the GOAT.
Looks like a CROW to me but I ain’t no zoologist
It’s a jackdaw
science is principled on the concept of reproducibility.
If the information is behind a paywall, it’s inaccessible and therefore beyond critique, making it unscientific.
Stealing publications and releasing them open source brings rigor to science
Legitimate question here. What’s stopping researchers from creating their own federated publishing system for academic journals?
It’s not federated, but arXiv is free and volunteer supported:
Nice! I’ll check it out!
Big grants and research money connections are typically only accessible because your paper got published in a “reputable” journal, which of course you only have a chance of getting if you publish with a “reputable” system.
spoiler
Reputable my ass
Publishing is a racket. This should have been done decades ago.
Short Answer - Universities
Long Answer:
To get and hold a job as an academic, you must continually produce “high quality research”. To get the job, in the first place, you must also be seen to do this.
“High quality” is often metriced by universities to mean “published in high impact journals” and “well cited”. This metric is known to be faulty, but universities really dislike change.
So, to get a job, you have to give up your rights to your research, and to keep your job, you have to do likewise.
Worse, in the current financial climate, academia is seeing unprecedented cuts, which further entrenches this issue.
and/or if the researchers are still alive email them and ask for a copy they will likely be happy to share it
Copy is not theft.
based and informationfreedom-pilled
