Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study published in ...
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.
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.