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Why can't academics just publish their stuff on a blog like everyone else?
by amadeuspagel 2y ago
Why can't academics just publish their stuff on a blog like everyone else?
- rscho 2y agoBecause: poor graduate students would contemplate suicide for having to gather hundreds of papers from just as many obscure blogs.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoif authors all just uploaded a copy of their final PDF to sci-hub this would solve the problem
- ufo 2y agoPapers should be immutable, blogs bit rot, and anonymous peer review is important. The million dollar question is why don't researchers publish on journals that don't charge outrageous open-access fees. Here the main problemis that carreer advancement is predicated on publishing in prestigious venues. Such venues take advantage of that by jacking their price. Fixing this will require cooperation from governments, which have leverage on both sides of the equation: they can help fund alternative paper repositories, and they are ultimately responsible for the rating criteria of what venues are prestigious and how research grants get awarded.