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on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:08PM
from the dogs-and-cats-living-together dept.
from the dogs-and-cats-living-together dept.
What happens to research that is funded by taxpayers? A lot ends up in subscription-only journals, protected from the eyes of most by a paywall.
But a new initiative known as Plan S could change that. Plan S focuses on making all publicly funded research immediately fully and freely available by open access publication.
It sounds like a good idea – but there are possible downsides. This model could potentially undermine peer review, the process vital for ensuring the rigour and quality of published research. It could also increase costs of publication for researchers and funding bodies. So let's do Plan S right.
Taxpayers will have the right to see the research they paid for?
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All Publicly Funded Australian Research Could Soon Be Free for You, the Taxpayer, to Read
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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:45PM (2 children)
"peer reviewers" are just supposed to be other professors, students, and shit. Problem is, they're probably high while they're reading that stuff.. Heh, it's the only way to get through it. And it's late, the old lady wants you in bed... You know what? Fuck this journal crap!
Let's do it in reverse. If nobody (like, the competition, because, you know, there's always money in tearing stuff down) says a study is bullshit, then assume it's good.
Oh, and the troll moderator up there can go fuck himself!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:19PM (1 child)
And the troll moderator right here can fuck himself too! What the fuck is the matter with you assholes? What a bunch of dicks! I shall pray for karma to smite you!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @11:12PM
We will not let you have any karma! For we are capitalists, and we own all the karma, even the karma you produce with the sweat of your brow using our means of karma production, because you are a proletarian who only has his labor power to sell. Don't like it? Well, it's a two party system! You're wasting your vote if you vote for anybody other than the two pre-approved capitalist candidates!
Bwahahaha!