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If the organization is receiving public funds of any kind, then they should be required to (electronically) publish all submissions unless the authors withdraw.
by chasil 4y ago
If the organization is receiving public funds of any kind, then they should be required to (electronically) publish all submissions unless the authors withdraw.
There has been quite enough censorship and paywalling of research that my taxes fund.
- bee_rider 4y agoThe point of a journal is not for people to express their feelings, but to provide researchers with a collection of papers that are, at least, mostly, not garbage. Journals publish the work of others and farm out the review process to others, their only real functionality is that of a gatekeeper. Since a good chunk of researchers are funded in part by the government, I guess most journals would end up having to follow this "publish everything" requirement (money is fungible and some of every grant goes to administrative overhead, so you could argue anything any most universities touch is funded in part by the government). Most publishers publish multiple journals, though, so I guess they could follow your rule as long as they were allowed to open up the, for example, "IEEE Journal of Perpetual Motion Machines And Straightforward Proofs That P=NP."
- sgt101 4y agoThe bullshit will wash over everything though - there are lots of people out there that are not acting in good faith (ie. Russians) and they will use your suggestion to claim status for all sorts of wickedness.
- dr_hooo 4y agoYou are likely not aware of just how much crap gets submitted for any given conference/journal.