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And it costs thousands of dollars to publish a paper there.
by streptomycin 14y ago
And it costs thousands of dollars to publish a paper there.
- jlgreco 14y agoYes, and? The price to publish with PLoS is not meant to be a barrier; they will wave the fee if you cannot afford it.
- streptomycin 14y agoNot many people waive the fee currently. If a lot of people did, it would be a huge problem for publishers like PLoS and they would have to change their practices. Assuming that won't happen, then if all publications were open access, there would be a lot more grant money that would have to be spent on publishing fees rather than research. That was the point the guy we originally replied to was making http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052476 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052476 so citing PLoS as an example isn't really meaningful. It's just an example of precisely the issue he was raising, not a rebuttal.