A World Without Sci-Hub
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A World Without Sci-Hub
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#2What are pragmatic things that we can do to push for open access for academic papers?
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#3"Swartz potentially faced more jail time for downloading academic papers than he would have if he had helped Al Qaeda build a nuclear weapon. "
Too much for the American values.
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#4It's unfortunate that technical societies such as the ACM and IEEE (for example) seem to view their digital libraries as cash cows to be milked to pay for non-library overhead.
I hope that increasing open access mandates - including distribution rights - for taxpayer-funded research will help to break down the paywalls.
It's encouraging that the University of California has open access requirements - hopefully they will become universal among public and private universities.
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#5What are pragmatic things that we can do to push for open access for academic papers?
no idea where to start. The entire business model needs to be changed? I feel like its highly intertwined with the entire academia ecosystem, from grants, fundings, universities etc.
But I think there were claims before that these journals were basically using their reputation to make outsized profits? i.e. all they do is receive publications, charge universities outrageous fees to access, and don't even pay reviewers? Thus an increasing number of predatory journals trying to take advantage of this model. If that is proven to be true I guess there is a case for nationalizing research publication work?
Honestly I have no idea though, I don't know enough details about this
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#6"Swartz potentially faced more jail time for downloading academic papers than he would have if he had helped Al Qaeda build a nuclear weapon. " Too much for the American values.
It's things like this that make me believe that the US isn't a truly free society. It simply pretends it is.
But all nations have their problems. The US simply has more than one might think.
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#7What are pragmatic things that we can do to push for open access for academic papers?
You start with the scientists make it prestigious to publish in an open source journal, make it sexy, make it lucrative.
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#8What are pragmatic things that we can do to push for open access for academic papers?
Sponsor or help to develop SciHub, LibGen, IPFS-based storage, arXiv and Co.
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#9What are pragmatic things that we can do to push for open access for academic papers?
Imagine the live map of the money-flow around the research/review/publishing/usage. It could give us some hints.
Pain becomes palpable If one think about it. Maybe some thermodynamically provable illustrations of the energy around the issue would help us illustrate the problem (read: the scale of sickness of the 'intellectual property')
My hunch is that we're at the stage where KWh could - and should be used as the universal money (with all implications and hurdles it may signal)
Like purified BTC.
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#10What are pragmatic things that we can do to push for open access for academic papers?
Just encourage people to upload their paper to an open access archive like arXiv first. Very few journals disallow this, it's just that authors are either too lazy or just don't want to make their paper publicly available.