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They got us by the balls (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 days ago by mr_might44@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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Context (for those who might not be in academia): many academic publishing companies (like Elsevier) charge exorbitant prices for researchers to get their papers published as open access. Meanwhile, none of these researchers actually get anything in return for it (except for major street cred if their papers get highly cited)

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[-] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

I am somewhat familar with ERIC's CLARIN (or ERIC CLARIN? or just CLARIN? I'm not sure how the two names are supposed to be used together). from the linked site:

CLARIN stands for Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure and ERIC stands for European Research Infrastructure Consortium.

I don't fully understand how to operate it because it's complicated but it does seem like a distributed scientific repository. It seems to focus on language but it's not clear to me why it can't, or doesn't (or maybe it does IDK) function as a general datashare. I'm not sure if it's a model for a full replacement of for-profit publishing houses but it seems like a promising direction for research to go.