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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
It really irks me that I'll be looking for a scientific journal article from the 1970s, find it on Elsevier or Springer or whatever, and it's *still* locked behind a paywall / institutional access. In this particular instance, the author himself has been dead for *fifteen* years. The free market doesn't solve this. We need laws to force the custodians of scientific papers past a certain age to make them open access for everyone. It makes little sense to gatekeep mankind's body of knowledge in the first place, but it makes no sense at all to do so after literal *decades*. It's pure unadulterated greed at the expense of humanity
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Adam
@adam-
It’s frustrating scenarios like this that end up fueling piracy
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MaryLonia
@marylonia
Paywalls for old research can be annoying though but I think there are a couple of decentralized solutions that might change this For instance, Ocean Protocol is working on a blockchain-based marketplace where data, including research, can be shared directly by providers with full control over access terms. I personally think platforms like this can fix if not most, some of the problems in this field.
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vaughn tan
@vt
but how else could they continue to make heaps from unpaid review and editorial work on the products of research usually paid for by public funds
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PhiMarHal
@phimarhal
The free market will solve this. The growing need for data and the closed source AI companies blatant disregard for intellectual property ensures they will train on those papers eventually. Then it's just a matter of getting the right prompt. Which will give you a hallucination in return. But you won't know any better = happiness is achieved.
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alexander
@the-cynic
omg. yes! this irks me so much. i was still discussing this with my boss recently. i needed to read a journal that was cited in several papers i was reading. boom. locked. couldn't fookin' access it. cos tell me why i have to pay $24.95 for a paper written in 1978. 😭
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kripcat.eth
@kripcat.eth
Open Access Journals ftw
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Rod Mamin
@ionrod
DeSci! $scihub
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Grey
@greygood
I fully agree
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