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One of my frustrations is that scientific papers decades old are still locked behind a paywall - so while I might voluntarily donate something if I find the con
by Aloha 9y ago
One of my frustrations is that scientific papers decades old are still locked behind a paywall - so while I might voluntarily donate something if I find the content useful - I'm not for example willing to pay 40 dollars to find out if an article that is 60 years old is interesting or useful - but I might pay 1-2 dollars after the fact. I totally get paywalling say.. anything newer than 5 years - I don't get the point of paywalling something 40-50-60 years old.
- dnautics 9y agoYou're not the target market. A person with a corporate credit card is willing to pay that much to read it, in certain industries.
- pishpash 9y agoAny sane bean counter should be able to work out a way to segment the market, like every subscription service ever, but it would require distributor content control, like DRM or streaming.
- nonbel 9y agoThe old stuff is worth much more than new, quality has dropped a lot since the 1940s as research becomes more and more industrialized.
- jacquesm 9y agoUnless of course you are at the edge of some field. Then the new stuff is a must.
- nonbel 9y agoNo, I mean the vast majority of what is getting published these days does not contain useful information (very often it is worse than that, and is misleading). Reading papers from back then, almost every paper was worthwhile in some way. I think it also has to do with the ease of publishing.