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Why, in this day and age, is there still publicly funded research that is not open access? Also I could rant for hours on the need to make your data available f
by pav3l 14y ago
Why, in this day and age, is there still publicly funded research that is not open access? Also I could rant for hours on the need to make your data available for any peer reviewed publication.
- blots 14y agoMy professor argued that keeping even publicly funded research and data behind paywalls will keep at least some of the people who have no idea about the scientific method from doing dangerous nonsense with it. I don't share this opinion.
- niels_olson 14y agoThis sounds like a variation of the Metallica defense. Does EMI own Elsevier?
- apawloski 14y agoBecause academic journals are products of inelastic demand. Researchers need to publish to keep their jobs[1]. Thus there is absolutely no incentive for the channels through which this publishing occurs to offer free access. [1]By the way, being able to publish is especially necessary to receive public funding in the first place.
- blots 14y ago> By the way, being able to publish is especially necessary to receive public funding in the first place. Being published in Nature gives you bonus points when it comes to funding. Which I don't quite understand, cause Nature is like the last journal where I'd look for newest information on my subject.
- pav3l 14y agoPublication in Nature is not so much for newest information on your specific and somewhat narrow subject, but for more or less breakthroughs of various degrees. From guidelines[1]: - report original scientific research (the main results and conclusions must not have been published or submitted elsewhere) - are of outstanding scientific importance - reach a conclusion of interest to an interdisciplinary readership. [1]http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/get_published/#a1 http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/get_published/#a1