• Slatlun@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    4 hours ago

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

  • Geodad@lemm.eeEnglish
    35·
    5 hours ago

    I refuse to pay to view papers. Knowledge should be free to anyone who wants it.

    • Animated_beans@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      4 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.

  • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    5 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.