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Checked and it was published through Nature: Jiang-Xie, LF., Drieu, A., Bhasiin, K. et al. Neuronal dynamics direct cerebrospinal fluid perfusion and brain cle
by VagabundoP 3y ago
Checked and it was published through Nature:
Jiang-Xie, LF., Drieu, A., Bhasiin, K. et al. Neuronal dynamics direct cerebrospinal fluid perfusion and brain clearance. Nature 627, 157–164 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07108-6 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07108-6
Every Uni should have access through your library system.
- gapan 3y agoI think the point was that every member of the public should have access to publicly funded research at least through the university's website, rather than at least everyone currently in universities should have access.
- samstave 3y agoAaronSwartz+1*
- baubino 3y agoI agree but I also know (as a university employee) that the reason they don’t do this is because then they would have to pay for and manage the hosting of hundreds of thousands of articles. From the university’s perspective, managing and hosting articles is exactly what publishers do, so universities cede that work to publishers. What is needed is a public database of all publicly-funded research.
- achow 3y agoHow hard or expensive is it to embed a PDF link in the Univ news article. It maybe less harder and expensive than the stock image that they have used. Stanford maintains an extensive catalog of research papers: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000064276 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000064276
- mock-possum 3y agoSounds like a good cost for the government to subsidize.
- fragmede 3y agosome sort of scientific hub, one might say
- jimberlage 3y agoAt first I was like, “oh, that’s a reasonable perspective,” and then I thought about it more and it kinda isn’t? When I buy a keyboard, the manufacturer doesn’t run a shipping company, so they use $x from the purchase price to subcontract shipping. (They tell me it’s separate at billing, but they don’t make me ring up DSL myself either.) When I hire an electrician, they buy materials from Home Depot, so they use $x from the purchase price for materials. (They sometimes break down the bill into materials and labor, but they don’t make me drive to Home Depot myself and buy every part.) When the public hires academics to do research, they have administrative overhead and have to hire a publisher, so they use $x from the grant for administrative overhead and… Abdicate responsibility for the $y needed for publishing and pretend the public didn’t intend for part of the grant money to go to that??
- melagonster 3y agoPublishers are not supported by government. and government only require publish.
- samtho 3y agoYou may have missed the point here. OP was saying that publicly funded research needs to have, built in to its budget for the research, enough money to make the findings publicly available. The publishing mechanism is largely arbitrary here, only that it must be budgeted for.
- VagabundoP 3y agoI agree publicly funded research should not be siloed in anyway and should be in the public domain.
- achow 3y agoYes, it was published through Nature. But what stops Univ' site to have original research paper available for download? Nature magazine is just a distribution channel (they did not sponsor the research so should not have exclusive rights on it). Left college long time ago; and do not have access to any library system.
- SturgeonsLaw 3y agoIf you email the authors they might be happy to send you a copy - scientists tend to be in favour of the free exchange of information, there's no restriction on them sharing their paper if they choose to, and they don't get royalties from journal subscriptions so they have no vested interest in paywalling their research
- bayindirh 3y agoNot all of them. I sent a couple of such mails, to only get back the freely available summary PDFs back. Even with the same checksum with the ones on the web.
- cj 3y agoYep. My dog was part of a study at UC Davis. All I was able to get was an abstract.
- 0xEF 3y agoTrue, but I'd say it's still worth the email asking. I used to work in the mental health field requested paywalled research papers on cognitive and developmental disabilities pretty regularly, and about 80% of the people I contacted sent the paper to me without much question. The more we all do it, the more expected the practice becomes and with any luck, these money-grubbing journals will take note and start offering copies at a minimal fee or time-limited access.
- bayindirh 3y agoOf course. I'm a big proponent of Open Access. OTOH, Elsevier seems to give 50 days of Open Access via share links. I didn't know that. I was away from academic arena for some time. Looks like I'll be returning soon-ish.