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Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by whatshisface on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:12PM (#16337635)
Out of curiosity, what's the field? In physics nothing is particularly open-access but that doesn't matter because everything with any significance at all gets put up on arxiv six months before publication.
Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by Vinnl on Friday February 09, 2018 @05:05AM (#16339116)
Well, it does matter somewhat: authors still publish in journals at the traditional publishers, and universities still subscribe to it, wasting research funds in developed countries and making the barriers to participation higher for researchers in emerging economies.
Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by jmgrosen on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:44AM (#16338158)
For its conferences, ACM SIGPLAN asks the authors to pay for the open-access fee if possible, but will cover it if the author cannot afford it.
Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by arrayjumper on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:12PM (#16337844)
Don't know about OP. In my experience a lot/most Computational Biology papers are Open Access.
Re:Science’s Pirate Queen by pcnix on Friday February 09, 2018 @02:47AM (#16338613)
I can second this. I've had a much better experience in Computational Biology compared to other fields wrt paper access.