My mate Anna has a great archive of papers. Look her up some time!
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The fact that public funds go to research only for everything that those funds becoming privatized is a fucking crime.
No grant should be given to any research if the results aren't published on an open journal.
No grant should be given if any marketable discovery becomes privatized
I am still fucking pissed that most countries used public funds to develop a covid vaccine then gifted them to private for profit corporation. Same for basically every medical development.
Many countries' funding agencies require open access publications for work based on their funding. However, open access fees are insanely high in some journals (e.g. around $12k for the higher impact factor Nature journals)...
that's also bullshit, I reviewed papers for publication. it's free labour, hosting a pdf is nearly free.
there's no justification.
Oh yeah, those price tags are insane. They're making crazy profits of public money thanks to hiring schemes based on impact factors :/
I like to keep the submitted version after review but without editing on my public repositories. Even when I publish open access.
We need nationally funded journals that are free for all people to read and mandate publication through them.
I like the general direction of that idea. But honestly, not sure if this should be national with all the political pressure and censorship that could come from that. With how international scientific research is, perhaps the UN or a newly formed international organisation could oversee such journals.
Urgh…. My fucking god, that made me so angry.
This is why i always place all important info in Supplementary Information which is almost always free of charge. except on sciencedirect. fuck them
Science not so direct
Fuck elsevier.
I’ve heard of a lot of scientists using the dark web just to access research articles “illegally” lol
If you mean Sci-hub, then yeah that's completely normal. I've used Sci-hub to access my own article once when I had lost access to the published version.
I'd rather use sci-hub than institutional access when the article is available. Fuck publishers.
Really hope someone comes up, recognizes how much public research money is wasted on this bullshit and sets up a public publisher directly funded by research funds which allows people to publish and read freely.
"the dark web" is police fascist fearmongering for tech that lets people access the internet from censored countries
The dark web is a specific section of the *deep web that can be accessed only using specific software configurations or authorizations
The name make sense because it's in fact hidden, dark and makes quite a bit of sense, the problem is that dark things do make people quite a bit scared and that was then weaponized
And i say that because i don't want to go against whatever you said but to expand on the (in my opinion, too) simplistic view you shared
*the deep web is that huge chunk of the internet that is not indexed by any search engine
Do your part and publish only on journals listed on doaj
Going open access is great, and that's what I do, but it has to be said a lot of grants do NOT pay for open access publications, and diamond open access (free for authors and readers) is quite rare and you can wait eternity to get published.
So, it has to be paid straight out of personal finances.
I see capitalism is going as well for the scientific community as it is for the rest of us.

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