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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:30AM (#17653979)
An interesting point is that if you email the author, they can send you their paper for free legally. Couldn’t a platform be created (essentially an email autoresponder) where you send a formatted request to the author, and the platform processes the request and sends the paper to you on behalf of the author?
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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by fuzzyset on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:07PM (#17655509)
That's basically https://arxiv.org/. The pre-print copyright (i.e. before editor/review comments) still belongs to the author so they can post it.
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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by gervase on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:33PM (#17657405)
The IEEE recently revised their copyright assignment terms to explicitly permit authors to upload the POST-review publication to Arxiv, along with a few other outlets.[0]

[0]: https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/publish-with-ieee/author-e...

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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:42PM (#17657481)
Would you know if there’s an effort to backfill Arxiv with post review publications (superseding the previously published drafts)?
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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by a_bonobo on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:13PM (#17655578)
I think you are thinking of the Open Access Button: https://openaccessbutton.org/
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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by jdietrich on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:23PM (#17655672)
https://www.researchgate.net/

But really, anyone with half a brain is going to try sci-hub first.

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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by cgdcraig on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:08PM (#17655528)
Not an issue if you have low abandonment of subscribers but an issue if everyone exchanges papers that way. You get a lot of value out of being able to search all the journals in one place. Also what happens if the author is dead or has dropped off the face of the planet.
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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by riscy on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:02PM (#17655454)
Isn’t that just HTTP?
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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by stan_rogers on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @06:06PM (#17657681)
That would count as publication.
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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by abnry on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:01PM (#17655448)
Sounds like a gap in the market.
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