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While I fully agree that the academic journal industry is a money extraction racket that needs to be put out of business, I don't see how academia.edu was contr
by lottin 10y ago
While I fully agree that the academic journal industry is a money extraction racket that needs to be put out of business, I don't see how academia.edu was contributing towards that end. The simple solution is for governments to require that the research that they fund be published under a free license of some sort.
- jdavis703 10y agoCan we start this at the ballot iniative level? I imagine that if the change was worded like "An inatiative that requires free, public access to all government funded research" would be a relatively non-partisan issue.
- wavefunction 10y ago>a relatively non-partisan issue. Were it were so. I think you'll find some rather strenuous objections to your moderate proposal, though that's not so much partisanship as a very loud minority of a minority of the population stridently pursuing their ideology.
- jdavis703 10y agoWhat "strenous" arguments would occur against this?
- jhbadger 10y agoThe for-profit publishing industry (and politicians they donate to) have argued time and again that their business model needs to be defended in order for science to function and that things like open repositories are bad. The (defeated) 2012 Research Works Act would have essentially destroyed the largest repository PubMed Central by eliminating the open access provisions of the NIH Public Access Policy.