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Academic publishing seems to be messed up but I'm not sure this is a good demonstration of that. Of the three links that you cite to online copies two no longe
by dcminter 15y ago
Academic publishing seems to be messed up but I'm not sure this is a good demonstration of that.
Of the three links that you cite to online copies two no longer link to the article. So while your $32 doesn't buy you anything you can't already get elsewhere the availability (at a price) from Nature does at least supply a degree of permanence to the article. That may be more important with less prominent items.
- jordanb 15y agoThe illegality (or quazi-illegality in the case of the links from the edu sites) of the mirrors is what's keeping them from being hosted permanently on a free site. If the copyrights were clear, there would be repositories like arxiv.org that would ensure high-availability free access. The paper isn't on arxiv.org currently because Nature uses its copyright to ensure that it's not.