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New York Times Opinion Piece on Open Access Publishing

posted by CoolHand on Monday March 14 2016, @11:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the rip-it-open dept.

canopic jug writes:

The New York Times has an opinion piece about Open Access publishing. It starts with the case of Alexandra Elbakyan a guerilla open access activist who is on the lam from the US government acting on behalf of the copyright cartel. Pricing and other restrictions put many journals out of reach of all but the few researchers at major, well-funded universities in developed nations. The large publishing companies usually have profit margins over 30% and subscription prices have been rising twice as fast as the price of health care, which itself is priced insanely, over the past two decades, so there appears to be a real scandal there. Several options are available including pre-print repositories and various open access journals. The latter require the author to pay up front for publishing. However, the real onus lies on the communities' leaders, like heads of institutions and presidents of universities, who are in a position to change which journals are perceived as high-impact.

Edit: Alexandra Elbakyan founded Sci-Hub in 2011.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday March 15 2016, @02:56AM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <{axehandle} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday March 15 2016, @02:56AM (#318334)

    ...from pirate sites illegally giving away the stuff that you produced and curated.

    "Extorting" is not the same as "producing and curating".

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 15 2016, @03:03AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 15 2016, @03:03AM (#318336) Journal

    (mmm... in the context of "daily newspapers across the US", extorting seems to be a quite strong term.
    Or... do you imply US is using its military to extract the news from those unwilling to part with them? I'm intrigued...)

    (peace, bro. I'm just clowning to the left)

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    • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday March 15 2016, @04:15AM

      by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <{axehandle} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday March 15 2016, @04:15AM (#318347)

      mmm... in the context of "daily newspapers across the US", extorting seems to be a quite strong term.

      Yes, it is, and I really didn't mean newspapers.

      My bad, I should have specified the science journal publishing bad guys.

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