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Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt
- ozymandias1337 3y agoScience is NOT a religion, it does NOT have sacred texts.
- jagged-chisel 3y agoLet alone blessed keepers of the sacred texts.
- ozymandias1337 3y agoRamen
- dr_dshiv 3y ago“most of the unarchived issues stem from smaller publishers”
- quantified 3y agoThere has been plenty of coverage of bogus or low-quality articles in journals that cater to publishing them. See "Rat Dck" [https://gizmodo.com/rat-dck-among-gibberish-ai-images-published-in-science-1851260727 https://gizmodo.com/rat-dck-among-gibberish-ai-images-publis...] for an example of blatant b.s. Are these publishers part of the set that is being worried over? Seems OK to let them be forgotten.
- ozymandias1337 3y agoIf true, good riddance.
- dr_dshiv 3y agoNo, frontiers is a big publisher and their stuff will last forever.
- Ekaros 3y agoSeems like all this should be stored in various national libraries and archives where ever the publisher is incorporate or where the university/institution or author residences.
- Kim_Bruning 3y agosci-hub is probably better backed up at this stage! (Though they had paused updating for a while, waiting for an Indian court?)
- denkmoon 3y agoWhat a ridiculous premise, and quite self serving. Anyone can upload a PDF (or even other formats that are libre!) to the internet, and a group of other people can then go peer review that document. Scientific method and peer review are science, not Springer.
- mmastrac 3y agoA better headline would be: "Scientific journals don't use enough redundancy in storing inaccessible articles and papers"
- flobosg 3y agoRelated, from last week: More than 2M research papers have disappeared from the Internet – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589626