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I've been relying on making stuff up and then linking to paywalled articles to win my internet arguments, so this is a big setback for me.
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I have asked a lot of academics why they don't work across departmental/institutional lines to strategize against administrators/regents. You'd think sociologists, economists, and lawyers would be able to take on the rather glaring market failures in academia, but those who don't already have tenure and a fiefdom all seem to be teetering on the edge of economic insecurity and can't risk the career destruction.
It might just be that there are too many credentialed people chasing too few research and teaching positions, but it's a sad state of affairs however you look at it.
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> If one red cent of taxpayer money goes to it, the taxpayer should get it for free. This logic only works for easily-replicable goods, like information. It falls apart when you consider various goods and service that are not easily replicable, or where increased demand can mean increased funding is necessary. E.g.: * So public housing can't be at least partially paid for by the tenant, it must be completely free? *…
We rely too much on money as a determining factor for things. Money does not accurately reflect value, nor does it accurate reflect contributions made to society. So, in that vain, I agree with another poster who said this should all be free. Perhaps with some changes. > * So public housing can't be at least partially paid for by the tenant, it must be completely free? Depends on what you consider as payment. I'm in…
Yes, but nevertheless money works better than not doing anything for stuff like street parking. It's simple and effective. Perhaps another system would work better on paper for allocating street parking, but I'm guessing most other suggestions would be a lot more complicated and brittle in practice.
Having done a short stint dealing with this stuff I am glad something is being done. NIST/NSF funded several studies that I was close to that were suddenly owned by a journal who did nothing but provide a place to put it. Public money should always mean public access. Not just for journals, but for anything. If one red cent of taxpayer money goes to it, the taxpayer should get it for free. Hopefully the trend continu…
I assume military R&D would be a big exception?
Great! How about we reduce the cost of college by eliminating the equally parasitical textbook industry?
At last. I genuinely believe there should be classes in high school teaching how to read papers as well. Around COVID, I'm sure +90% of the population relied on online news sources giving their click-bait-y interpretation of studies. (if at all read, perhaps just the abstract)
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Serious question: What do journals actually do ? Do they check the article ? Why is it important for it to be in a journal ? I don't know much about academic research, fyi. I think it's also a midway proposal for other reasons. The proposal merely suggests open access but barely specifies anything. I don't want to give the government personal information and enable endless tracking to them just because I want to down…
The find one or more well-credentialed and cited experts in the field to anonymously review the paper and point out shortcomings in the research or drafting - this is the 'peer' part of peer review. Then they either accept for publication, suggest revisions, or reject it outright.
So, we don't have to pay for the access, great. But searching for and collating all these tens of thousands of papers in each federal repository will have to be done... manually... by every researcher. .....Oh. You wanted search? You wanted indexing? You wanted a centrally managed service to pull from all those different federal repositories? Well, you're gonna need a company to develop all that and run it. You can u…
It's funny how the political class understands the things like this that need to be done, they just don't care at all until they are heading into an election cycle they are about to lose. Then suddenly the political will is suddenly found.
You think this is a big populist vote grab?