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This will only hurt the science community. You need money to fund these publications and the scientists that are leaking the publications aren't actually fundi
by red_blobs 10y ago
This will only hurt the science community. You need money to fund these publications and the scientists that are leaking the publications aren't actually funding the research with their own money.
A better idea would be to fund publications yourself (with your own money) and release all of the information for free.
But it takes much more talent, intelligence, and discipline to do something like this, which most people don't have.
- dlgeek 10y agoThe money to/from the publication doesn't fund the research or the author, or even the peer reviewers, just the journal itself.
- titanomachy 10y agoYeah, the peer reviewers work for free and the authors actually pay to be in the journal. It's a deeply broken system.
- frayesto 10y agoAs a graduate student, I've been quite determined to post all of my papers and code to github/arxiv/personal website. Most journals allow you to freely distribute pre-prints, and most researchers I know do this very frequently. The entire scientific publication environment is quite convoluted but there is a large effort for open publications.