Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

Post by CraftingLinks » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 2:21 PM UTC

andi999 wrote: post #11

chrisseaton wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It’s truly horrific that as an interested layman I am completely UNABLE to read most scientific papers. You can usually find a pre-print by Googling the title. Or ask the author for a copy. (You shouldn't have to do this, but you can until all papers are open access anyway.)

Why is it legal for the author to send you a copy (asking as an author)

Post by chrisseaton » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

andi999 wrote: post #11

chrisseaton wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It’s truly horrific that as an interested layman I am completely UNABLE to read most scientific papers. You can usually find a pre-print by Googling the title. Or ask the author for a copy. (You shouldn't have to do this, but you can until all papers are open access anyway.)

Why is it legal for the author to send you a copy (asking as an author)

Post by laurent92 » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

arcanus wrote: post #4

a_bonobo wrote: post #2

A good development - depositing papers in OA journals is extremely expensive and internationally, most funding bodies requiring OA don't give you money to publish OA. For example, Nature Communications charges around $5,000 for a single paper; I can send a student to an overseas conference for that kind of money! Public repositories like arxiv or biorxiv are free.

I could not agree more: this is a good thing. Studies funded by public money should be freely available by default. This is a great decision and I hope major funding agencies in the USA follow this example. As a practicing scientist, I ostensibly have access to a rich variety of journals from my employer. However, I've found journal access to be difficult during WFH/COVID. My default is to look for an open access pap…

Post by mdp2021 » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 2:38 PM UTC

SQueeeeeL wrote: post #15

cs702 wrote: post #9

Slowly and almost imperceptibly if you look at it day-to-day, public research repositories like arxiv and biorxiv, along with public code repositories like github and gitlab, are becoming or maybe already are the world's most important academic "journals." All research and code posted on them gets a quick once-over; good work gets the attention it deserves; bad work is quickly ignored. Reviews take place over the Int…

If you want to have to read 5,000 poorly written error riddled works to find a single gem I guess it's okay. Unfortunately, I'm not an immortal