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> The results were published today in the top scientific journal Nature... The team used the CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), — an
by evolve2k 6y ago
> The results were published today in the top scientific journal Nature... The team used the CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), — an array of 36 radio telescopes in the Mid West of Western Australia.
I’m disappointed to see that this important public research was gleefully published into a closed private access journal.
Especially considering that science like this is likely all publically funded.
Where should have this been published if they were committed to Open Access?
- raattgift 6y agoFWIW, as with practically any astrophysics paper published in practically any journal, a preprint can be found by title or author search. In this case, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13161 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13161 (and note "Comments: Published online in Nature 27 May, 2020"). Being published in Nature has some prestige still, even for astrophysics collabs.; even if -- for the sake of argument -- one accepts there are journals with better focus coupled with stronger editing of astrophysics papers in this area, that might not be relevant to all of the sources of funding for the collaboration.