Re:Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some d...
by rmc on Friday September 16, 2011 @01:52PM
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It annoys me that there's essentially a big cartel of the publishers and the universities and university students so that they can access it for free. And that's why it's been slow to change, the people who most want access already have it for free. It's the general public who are cut out. If graduate students had to pay the same fee as the general public, things would have changed by now.
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Re:Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some d...
by xyzzyz on Friday September 16, 2011 @03:19PM
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General public is not anywhere nearly as interested as academia people. The ones who are in the greatest need of access to science journals are researchers, and since most of them work for public research institutions, they already have it. Undergraduate students don't really care about papers, because they're too advanced for most of them to grasp. That's why they use textbooks. People who are not connected with academia, but still want to have an access to academic papers, are a really, really small group, so it's no strange that nobody cares about them.