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> There never will be. That's overly pessimistic. There's lots of effort making publicly funded research more accessible.
by geysersam 4y ago
> There never will be.
That's overly pessimistic. There's lots of effort making publicly funded research more accessible.
- nixpulvis 4y agoThe issue is with the "for all" statement.
- geysersam 4y agoNever is a strong word, considering science publishing in the current form is barely a century old.
- hprotagonist 4y agoIn the history of mankind, have everyone alive at one time all collectively agreed that That Thing Over There Is The One We Trust? You won't get universal consensus on authority. That's not pessimism; that's an odd kind of optimism, really...
- geysersam 4y agoDon't see what trust you are talking about. There's no need to have "one thing". The important thing is that the research is public. If it lives in multiple repositories is irrelevant. Just have an aggregator query the 10 biggest of those and we're done. SciHub already achieves this without any support from institutions or universities, that ought to convince anyone that it's possible.