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> They all literally just come down to "I want everything to be free all the time and never pay for anything" It's not "free". We've already paid for the conte
by chimprich 4y ago
> They all literally just come down to "I want everything to be free all the time and never pay for anything"
It's not "free". We've already paid for the content in the journals through taxes. Most research is funded by government grants, carried out by scientists paid with public money.
The writing and the reviewing and most of the formatting is also done by scientists. The value that a journal provides on top of that is minimal. It's rent-seeking behaviour on content where the actual value has already been paid for.
- throwawaaarrgh 4y agoSo tell your representatives in government to stop putting government funded research into journals. (They won't stop, and the reason why is the same reason why journals have those big profits)
- chimprich 4y ago> They won't stop They are already stopping: https://www.ukri.org/publications/ukri-open-access-policy https://www.ukri.org/publications/ukri-open-access-policy > the reason why is the same reason And which reason is that?