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This is a hilarious piece. You yankees are good 20 years behind the real pirate libraries trend, started with lib.ru and well continued with the genesis lib and uneraseable flibista.is. Ah, I forgot to mention nehudlit.ru, which is specialized on textbooks.
Thanks for the links! I didn't know all of them. I suppose that by flibista.is you actually mean http://flibusta.is/ Cheers!
Open access is being increasingly thought of as inevitable and the only ethical option for publishing academic research. What I believe we will end up with eventually is a situation where nearly all new publications are open access, and a good deal of older twentieth century (and earlier) research is publicly available as well due to ongoing digitalisation and expired copyrights. In between, there will be a significa…
I think the best way to shorten that period is if we stop citing papers that aren't publicly available.
This is a hilarious piece. You yankees are good 20 years behind the real pirate libraries trend, started with lib.ru and well continued with the genesis lib and uneraseable flibista.is. Ah, I forgot to mention nehudlit.ru, which is specialized on textbooks.
Good references. On the side, seeing as most of what is the internet started here (packet switching and ARPANET), and there were hacker BBSs and pirated material before Pirate Bay, I'd say we were not behind in any of these trends. And go further back to the invention of the transistor in NJ, USA, mate ;)
What the US is holding firmly is production and sales of space-ready elements for high orbit satellites, sorry, sputniks.
Open access is being increasingly thought of as inevitable and the only ethical option for publishing academic research. What I believe we will end up with eventually is a situation where nearly all new publications are open access, and a good deal of older twentieth century (and earlier) research is publicly available as well due to ongoing digitalisation and expired copyrights. In between, there will be a significa…
Journal publishing itself is awkward. It's bad use of experimental data - often you have to look at printed graphs to figure out data values not reported in the paper. Statistic power is almost never mentioned. Tons of data that could be useful to other researchers is discarded. Discussion sections tend to be overly biased. There is so much research output, it's almost impossible to refute anything and possibel to su…
Can't say I'm sympathetic to publishers. They've been rorting the system for a long time now. When publisher substantial fund research more than government, I might start feeling differently. Of course, that will never happen as they couldn't make money. I really would like to know - what do publishers actually do that couldn't be done on a more open system? And why can't Universities manage the peer review system?
> what do publishers actually do that couldn't be done on a more open system? Nothing positive, as far as I can tell. I firmly believe that they hold back the progress of the human race by limiting access to the bleeding edge of human knowledge - all for the sake of money. I'm glad people are attempting to force an overhaul of the system. An excellent article on the matter: http://priceonomics.com/post/50096804256/wh…
Pretty good description of Academia in general.
Open access is being increasingly thought of as inevitable and the only ethical option for publishing academic research. What I believe we will end up with eventually is a situation where nearly all new publications are open access, and a good deal of older twentieth century (and earlier) research is publicly available as well due to ongoing digitalisation and expired copyrights. In between, there will be a significa…
will only get easier due to technological advances and increasing amounts of bandwidth available to consumers worldwide. Not if some of those "technological advances" are acting against this movement: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
> free kernels, even entire free operating systems...had existed around the turn of the century...you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password
Sounds a lot like UEFI. Submitted as a new article here:
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> Assumption 2: the cost of the subscriptions is passed on to the primary customers of the universities -- students. This is not likely to be true. Most universities in the US take overheads on grants. So if you get a $20,000 grant, the university will often take up to $12,000 of that (usually it's in the $6000–8000 range), and the researcher uses the rest. That money in overheads is used for a variety of things, inc…
> Journals are expensive, but they're not _that_ expensive. https://mako.cc/fun/overpricetags/ Would $25,888/yr for a single journal not count as '_that_ expensive'? But I agree they're not likely a tuition driver. After all, institutions can simply drop subscriptions: they don't do much for attracting students compared to facilities.
For a journal cost, $25,888/yr is expensive, but no, it wouldn't count as "_that_ expensive". I meant "_that_ expensive" as "expensive enough to be a tuition driver".
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Good references. On the side, seeing as most of what is the internet started here (packet switching and ARPANET), and there were hacker BBSs and pirated material before Pirate Bay, I'd say we were not behind in any of these trends. And go further back to the invention of the transistor in NJ, USA, mate ;)
Steam engine was invented well before Christ in Alexandria. However, its real life applications were really developed much later in England. Same with the Internet. What the US is holding firmly is production and sales of space-ready elements for high orbit satellites, sorry, sputniks.
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Steam engine was invented well before Christ in Alexandria. However, its real life applications were really developed much later in England. Same with the Internet. What the US is holding firmly is production and sales of space-ready elements for high orbit satellites, sorry, sputniks.
I really don't like national, or jingoistic-based comparisons of contribution by country, since personally I am an individualist. I am hoping for the day we have no borders or tribes or nations (does that make me an anarchist too?). But, if lines are to be drawn, I believe you're short-changing history here a bit. The U.S. doesn't just 'holding firmly in production and sales of space-ready elements for high orbit sat…