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Exactly!!! And there's very little 'regular' scientists can do about this. It's a system upheld by senior academics' conceptions, funding agencies, and universi
by a_bonobo 3y ago
Exactly!!! And there's very little 'regular' scientists can do about this. It's a system upheld by senior academics' conceptions, funding agencies, and university management staff.
- noisy_boy 3y agoSeems like the only answer to this is law enforcing open sourcing of academic research, atleast that which is funded by the taxpayer; though not much hope of that with the lobbying pushed by the incumbent journals.
- a_bonobo 3y agoYes, there used to be Plan S by the EU, 'all research has to be open access' - which led to an explosion in publisher's prices as people were forced to pay them! Nature used to be Closed Access only, but once Plan S came around they added an OA option for about 10k in euros. Ridiculous. The EU just announced they're changing that towards no cost open access mandates: https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/ https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infr... Good news! We'll see how the publishers will torpedo it
- noisy_boy 3y ago> Good news! We'll see how the publishers will torpedo it Indeed! Maybe they will try to make it difficult to access but atleast as long as the access is open and free (as in beer), all those efforts will do is give rise to a secondary platform that will solve the ease-of-access issue. I suggest you submit a new post once EU decision is final, either way, so that this topic stays in the forefront :)