Comment on Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely.

qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some funding does actually require that, these days

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Very cool. I know someone, in a fairly small but funded field, who had this sort of requirement — Elsevier had the relevant publication, but they couldn’t publish there due to access policies (or it was going to be painful to do so at any rate). So they started their own publication!

    I forgot the specifics, but it essentially uses arXiv as the backend, and there’s a (commercially available?) frontend that lets editors and reviewers do their thing. “Publishing” in this journal is essentially just endorsing an arXiv paper; so it’s open access by design.

    Really cool stuff. Their field is small enough that iirc they could kinda get critical mass to give Elsevier the finger and adopt this new platform. Warm fuzzy feeling thinking about it!

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  • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You forgot the part where this resulted in giving even more money to the publishers for the “Open access”. World is fucked.

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