it works.
You should check out the planet sometime.
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JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 1 day agoWhy is all of scientific research locked behind paywalls
Because to advance in your field you need to publish your research in peer reviewed publications and the publishers need to monetise the content to keep publishing.
It sucks, it works.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
What are you talking about?
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It certainly doesn’t work, that’s why there exists stuff like arXiv and SciHub
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
ArXiv is just a pre—print, and SciHub is a shadow library.
If you want an academic career, have your discoveries recognised, and stay in funded research, you must publish on peer reviewed traditional channels. Like it or not.
Of course you can still do research alone and publish on your website, but hardly anyone would take you seriously.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Assuming that you pass the peer review, then nobody will reference your paper in other papers. It will become obvious that your research is not interesting or that you are just slapping your name on papers as a supervisor.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours 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.
JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
I don’t even know what you are talking about, but I’m afraid that you are not well informed. Even as an undergraduate you get access to publications through your university.