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Now it is called "pirate" to access research, which was financed by the people? I don't think we should attribute such action with any negatively connotated wo

• rat9988 5y ago
  > Now it is called "pirate" to access research, which was financed by the people? Yes it is. The fact there was tax payer money involved doesn't mean any contract with the private sector must be free. Up to the people who found the research to require that it should be published in other means. Grant money comes with many conditions and it's usually not one of them. And when it is, it is respected, from my experience.
• periheli0n 5y ago
  There is a lot wrong with todays scientific publishing industry. But this does not mean that their service should be free. Access to research is one thing, organising the review process, print layout, marketing another. Most researchers I know share their preprints for free. But the final peer reviewed & laid out product has added value. The problem is the inflated price that researchers have allowed to be charged for their own product. Partly because many care more about their publication list than about anything else. Rather than downloading illicit copies out of convenience, one should download preprints, engage in their discussion, seek out open peer review, share personal copies of peer reviewed papers, and contact other researchers for their papers. We need to build a community of researchers if we want to take the greedy publishers out of the equation.