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Re:Should All Research Papers Be Free? by DaveWalk on Monday March 14, 2016 @04:01PM (#11285147)
> Conferences are more important to a scientific career than an OA paper

Depends on you field of research, maybe? Paper publications make or break early biomedical research careers.

Further, the grants that these funds are paid out of often have travel funds built-in, so conferences are still available.

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Re:Should All Research Papers Be Free? by a_bonobo on Monday March 14, 2016 @10:31PM (#11287059)
>Paper publications make or break early biomedical research careers.

Yes, but that has nothing to do with the OA-status of those publications - if it's a high-impact journal, then it makes the career, if it's not, then not.

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