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PLOS is open-access, as a taxpayer you can read world-class peer-reviewed (more stringent than Elsevier journals in fact) articles in your preferred field's pre
by anticensor 2y ago
PLOS is open-access, as a taxpayer you can read world-class peer-reviewed (more stringent than Elsevier journals in fact) articles in your preferred field's preferred issue.
- pdonis 2y agoAre there any articles on PLOS that I can't find on arxiv.org?
- j_maffe 2y agoIt's not about having access to more articles, it's about the guarantee of peer-review of whatever you read on PLOS. On Arxiv you could be reading the ramblings of a random person on the internet with zero relevance to the real world.
- lelanthran 2y ago> On Arxiv you could be reading the ramblings of a random person on the internet with zero relevance to the real world. The current model for traditional publishing vets each paper that is published; arxive vets each author[1] once, and then their papers can be published. So, sure, you could be reading the ramblings of a random person, but it is quite unlikely. I think what is more valuable is looking at the citations to the work you are reading; unless you are reading something very very new, if it is valuable at all it would be cited. [1] When I last looked at publishing (maybe a decade ago?), arxive was vetting authors, not individual papers.