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Re:We've failed: open access is winning and we must change o... by dash2 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @08:39PM (#15267591)
In my discipline, publishers simply agree to publish a journal with a given editor. The idea they are selecting the editor is wrong - they wouldn't know how. They do no scientific work at all. Usually, they benefit from the status quo: a famous journal is with a given publisher, and to publish there we have to pay them a fee.
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Re:We've failed: open access is winning and we must change o... by allenz on Sunday September 17, 2017 @01:27AM (#15268354)
Ok, maybe we can replace the lot of them with a website. But the way I see it, collaboration platforms like Wikipedia, Facebook, and GitHub are valuable, and someone has to maintain the website. I wouldn't agree that this problem is "capital-s Solved", and it certainly isn't solved by piracy.
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