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This company is the laughing stock of gaming right now (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by HotWheelsVroom@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 29 points 5 months ago

Do this with books too. How much we've lost.

[-] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 33 points 5 months ago

Anna's Archive seems to be doing a good job of that

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

+1 for Anna’s Archive. It’s an amazing resource for students too, since they keep research papers and textbooks.

And before someone gets up in arms about the research papers, the researchers don’t get paid by the journals for publishing with them. In fact, the researchers need to pay the journal to publish, and then the journal turns around and charges people to read it.

If you ever need to get research for free, you can usually email the researchers directly and they’ll be happy to share it for free; They hate the journals too, (because like I said earlier, they have to pay the journal thousands of dollars,) but feel obligated to use them to publish.

Even worse, that research and journal publishing was often funded by public funds and research grants. So the journal is paywalling research that taxpayers already paid for, and should be free to access.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

And before someone gets up in arms about the research papers, the researchers don’t get paid by the journals for publishing with them. In fact, the researchers need to pay the journal to publish, and then the journal turns around and charges people to read it.

What you're describing here is called predatory publishing and is not the norm. It's the "fake news" of scientific journals. I'm not "up in arms" about the original topic of making info available to the public whatsoever, just wanted to correct this part.

https://beallslist.net/

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Some respected, high impact journals also charge for submitting.

Lower quality journals charge more and almost guarantee publication.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What you're describing here is called predatory publishing and is not the norm.

No, predatory publishing "is an exploitative academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors while only superficially checking articles for quality and legitimacy" without real peer review. For context reviewers aren't paid by high impact journals either.