• @Animated_beans
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      2210 hours ago

      If research is funded by tax dollars, then it should absolutely be free for everyone to have access to.

      I’m not sure how I feel about private research being required to be free to all (does it disencentivize research to let everyone learn from what you paid to learn?). Either way, if the tax payer pays for something, they deserve free access to learn from it.

  • @[email protected]
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    1510 hours ago

    Also, donate your time to review papers, an absolutely critical part of “peer reviewed journals”, for the people charging you both.

  • FundMECFS
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    9 hours ago

    Qeios is pretty cool.

    (Open access non-profit journal that charges less than 30 USD to publish)

  • @[email protected]
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    811 hours ago

    We don’t pay for shit. Universities and taxpayers do.
    It will be interesting to see what cutting university funding does to publishers who may realize that half their “customers” can’t afford their services and have to turn to (quote/unquote) piracy. On the one hand I’m optimistic of a price adjustment. On the otherhand, a nagging suspicion that nothing good can come from the sudden lack of access to research creeps upon me.