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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWhy is all of scientific research locked behind paywalls instead of some open source scientist-built system?
Because like most people, they’re just trying to get by with the least amount of effort. Structural change is hard and risky.
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It certainly doesn’t work, that’s why there exists stuff like arXiv and SciHub
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
[deleted]technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah that’s why science is such a failure. There’s no actual progress in forcing information behind paywalls, etc. This is a major part of how/why science is used for the profits of the few at the expense of violence, planetary destruction, etc. for everyone else.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s exactly the point. If you want to be a researcher right now you have to play their game. You have to publish papers even if you don’t have anything. So people publish bullshit, use chatGPT, force their name on papers they haven’t contributed and so on.
Meanwhile the science journals get paid by everyone and pay no one.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
it works.
You should check out the planet sometime.
underscore_@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Anyone want to build one together? This issue, of “publishers” not only double dipping to accept and then share papers especially when outsourcing the review work unpaid back to the researchers themselves, has always frustrated me.
underscore_@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Anyone want to build one together? I’ve always been frustrated with the current academic publishing model. Parasitic “publishers” double dipping on authors and readers while outsourcing the bulk of the review work unpaid.