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Could someone make all scientific journals free to read, I'm super fucked off stealing access through various student friends accounts.

• yhvh 16y ago
  I definitely value the fact that approving the content of journals is a costly business, it's just a frustration of mine. I apologise for the tone.
  • mayank 16y ago
    It's a costly business for the people doing the actual reviewing, ie the scholars who essentially work for free. Academic publishing is, I hope, the next industry to be reformed by open access web archives, although I'll be the first to admit that it's a long way away. So I think it's perfectly fine for you to be "fucked off".
    • carbocation 16y ago
      Despite accepting basically everything that is valid science (typically a much lower bar than is required to publish in most journals), PLOS One has had a consistently increasing impact factor. In other words, the open access approach is getting some respect from scientists who produce the original material.
    • alextp 16y ago
      One of the best things about working in machine learning and natural language processing is that the best conference and journal archives are already open access ( books.nips.cc , usually ICML publishes the papers online, there's the ACL anthology, JMLR and JAIR are fully open access, etc).