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I thought the 'double payment' refers to people paying for the research through the tax system, and then paying again to look at the resulting paper?
by raarts 9y ago
I thought the 'double payment' refers to people paying for the research through the tax system, and then paying again to look at the resulting paper?
- a3_nm 9y agoOops, right. I thought the parent comment referred to "double dipping" for hybrid journals (those that have both open-access and closed-access articles): where research institutes pay once for "open-access article processing charges" (to publish) and once more for subscriptions (to read the articles that are closed-access). Of course, all of this is in addition to the intrinsic cost of doing the research.