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That would be great. A lot of the obscurity and bullshit in academia comes from big egos and fear of thinking out in the open the way people do on Twitter or bl
by zaptheimpaler 7y ago
That would be great. A lot of the obscurity and bullshit in academia comes from big egos and fear of thinking out in the open the way people do on Twitter or blogs today.. that whole model of working is outdated when you can now publish to & consume from anyone in world for free.
Academic publishing is roughly where the music industry was shortly after Napster. There is no reason they should get away with charging crazy fees for putting a PDF up on the web and people are sick of it. Journals that don't accept the new reality of free information wont last long. Once the papers are freely published, peer review will follow suit and happen out in the open like comments on a blog today.