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Topic	New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers.
ChromaticAngel 04/06/17 10:12:24 AM #12:	FlashOfLight posted... COVxy posted... Paywalls have very little to do with universities, but with journals. The journal system is pretty awful. Universities and individuals pay for subscriptions, researchers pay journals to include their work for publication, and journals utilize researchers as a free resource for peer review. But it's not like people can protest and be like 'I'm no longer gonna publish in these journals' because you'd be sacrificing your career. More or less, the system is relatively fucked, and fixing it, if it'll happen at all, will only take place over a long period of time with large cultural shifts in the scientific community. They really have to embrace modern methods, because it's not like the information contained in them is regarding nuclear weapons and how to operate them, but they contain valuable information that is crucial to the history of certain scientific research fields for the benefit of the future, in the long term, especially those areas of information dealing with how to preserve nature for the immediate generations that are coming along, and not to mention for the progress and development that will take place in the African continent, that needs to be prepared for how to deal with growing risks. I don't know, I still find access to these sources primitive in our day, and they really shouldn't be such a dilemma to acquire, but I understand the money requirements and other factors that may take place behind closed doors. For the most part, if you require access to the historical papers, you'll have it for free because you'll be part of a university that includes it as a benefit. I think starting some kind of NPO to have kind of an open source journal would be a great idea. --- https://puu.sh/tcLsT/24f4611235.png <cite>ChromaticAngel posted [p:876651769] in New tool t... [t:75202696]...</cite> <quote><cite>FlashOfLight posted...</cite> <quote><cite>COVxy posted...</cite> <quote>Paywalls have very little to do with universities, but with journals. The journal system is pretty awful. Universities and individuals pay for subscriptions, researchers pay journals to include their work for publication, and journals utilize researchers as a free resource for peer review. But it's not like people can protest and be like 'I'm no longer gonna publish in these journals' because you'd be sacrificing your career. More or less, the system is relatively fucked, and fixing it, if it'll happen at all, will only take place over a long period of time with large cultural shifts in the scientific community.</quote> They really have to embrace modern methods, because it's not like the information contained in them is regarding nuclear weapons and how to operate them, but they contain valuable information that is crucial to the history of certain scientific research fields for the benefit of the future, in the long term, especially those areas of information dealing with how to preserve nature for the immediate generations that are coming along, and not to mention for the progress and development that will take place in the African continent, that needs to be prepared for how to deal with growing risks. I don't know, I still find access to these sources primitive in our day, and they really shouldn't be such a dilemma to acquire, but I understand the money requirements and other factors that may take place behind closed doors.</quote> For the most part, if you require access to the historical papers, you'll have it for free because you'll be part of a university that includes it as a benefit. I think starting some kind of NPO to have kind of an open source journal would be a great idea. --- https://puu.sh/tcLsT/24f4611235.png</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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