Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
by fossuser on Friday April 29, 2016 @05:47AM
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Need to figure out how to align the incentives and fix the prestige problem of academia in order for this to work.
Open Access exists, but you don't get the status you need from it (and weirdly it often costs a couple hundred dollars for the graduate student to publish their paper open access in addition to the Journal).
It'd be nice if there was a way to make the community more like open source software where you get status from sharing and collaborating instead of from hoarding information in fear of being 'scooped'.
As it stands the incentives are directly opposite collaborating and sharing information and really the best parts about science and research.
Open Access exists, but you don't get the status you need from it (and weirdly it often costs a couple hundred dollars for the graduate student to publish their paper open access in addition to the Journal).
It'd be nice if there was a way to make the community more like open source software where you get status from sharing and collaborating instead of from hoarding information in fear of being 'scooped'.
As it stands the incentives are directly opposite collaborating and sharing information and really the best parts about science and research.