Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study published in ...
“The lack of access to publications, which preprints and open access journals are trying to solve, may no longer be felt so strongly to find required increasing support. In any case, the existence of pirate websites represents an important factor for journals to rethink their commercial policies in terms of granting access to scientific literature.”
In my opinion, piracy is also a legitimate solution to the problem of expensive journals. Maybe open access isnt as great as assumed.
Disclaimer, I am not a scientist and only read a few papers during university.
Open access publication is just another great idea ruined by unfettered capitalism.
The big publishers decided to make up for the loss of one-time fees by charging thousands of dollars to publish an open access article.
Generally, this money has to come out of the research funding, which is scarce enough already in many fields, and the cost is prohibitive for most projects.
For context, peer review is performed for free by volunteer academics, so all the publishers really do these days is turn a word document into a fancy pdf, and lend a mostly illusory veneer of respectability.
In my opinion, piracy is also a legitimate solution to the problem of expensive journals. Maybe open access isnt as great as assumed.
Disclaimer, I am not a scientist and only read a few papers during university.
Open access publication is just another great idea ruined by unfettered capitalism.
The big publishers decided to make up for the loss of one-time fees by charging thousands of dollars to publish an open access article.
Generally, this money has to come out of the research funding, which is scarce enough already in many fields, and the cost is prohibitive for most projects.
For context, peer review is performed for free by volunteer academics, so all the publishers really do these days is turn a word document into a fancy pdf, and lend a mostly illusory veneer of respectability.