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An issue with open access is that you have to pay thousands of dollars up front to get published - fine if you’re in a rich western lab, not so great if you’re
by czzr 6y ago
An issue with open access is that you have to pay thousands of dollars up front to get published - fine if you’re in a rich western lab, not so great if you’re in India or some other emerging country.
- freeone3000 6y agoWhy do you have to pay thousands of dollars up front though? It doesn't cost that to host a paper. Reviewers don't get paid. Where does the money go?
- esyir 6y agoTo the Journal. They want money too, but for open access it comes from the researchers. For closed access, it comes from the subscriptions. Forcing open access is still the same as just paying for the subscription, as far as it goes, since if public funds are used for this, it's all the same thing.
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agoWhy cant we just use scihub to host these "open access" stuff... What is the benefit for an end user like me or to the author or to the reviewer to necesarily pay a third party like a publisher in 2021 ? Why cant we just let them die in their circlejerk copyrights with only old content?