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It's really strange to me that in 2018, with open web and were we are publishing massive codebases on github that folks are still going through a paid/closed pu
by segmondy 8y ago
It's really strange to me that in 2018, with open web and were we are publishing massive codebases on github that folks are still going through a paid/closed publisher to get published.
- fwip 8y agoWhile many eyes may make all bugs shallow; getting those eyes isn't free. That is, the primary value-add of the traditional paper publishing model is trust in the editorial staff and peer-reviewers. Anybody can throw up a repo on github - not everyone can get that repo published in Nature. Journals provide a curated list of exciting, valuable, and reliable research.