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Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi... by jhrmnn on Sunday October 31, 2021 @08:16PM (#29061784)
In fact academics often put their work online freely. But funding sources press them to also publish in journals in order to satisfy their selection criteria
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Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi... by xtracto on Sunday October 31, 2021 @08:29PM (#29061867)
One of the last papers I "published" when I was in academia I just uploaded to Arxiv. I was so disenfranchised with research/academia that I didn't make the effort to polish the manuscript to submit ot to a peer reviewed journal.

This paper had 9 citations the last time I checked. Which I found pleasant.

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Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi... by civilized on Sunday October 31, 2021 @08:34PM (#29061890)
The fact that publishing on the arXiv works so well, even with minimal institutional support or prestige, just goes to show how very possible it is to do all publishing free and open-access. There's just no incentive for anyone in this system to stop fleecing the taxpayer.
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