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"Open Access" - all academic papers available for free on the web - is very hot right now. To the point that many national funding agencies require it as a prec
by JoachimSchipper 15y ago
"Open Access" - all academic papers available for free on the web - is very hot right now. To the point that many national funding agencies require it as a precondition for funding research.
Additionally, researchers in some fields did already make (most of) their papers available, either centralized (arXiv, eprint.iacr.org - math, physics, cryptography) or on their own web pages.
- walrus 15y agoThings do seem to be going in the right direction, but older papers are still hard to get a copy of without access to a university network.