• I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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      7 days ago

      I wrote one of those papers. The fuckers charged me $1000 to publish it as open access, then other journals download it and stick it on their websites and charge $60 to read it. What a joke!

      • Luke@lemmy.ml
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        Ignorant person checking in with probably a dumb and oversimplified question, but what prevents you and other science researchers from posting your writing independently? Why must you submit to these corpo controlled publications?

    • Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works
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      Yep, before sci hub you could always just email an author and probably get the paper that way, they aren’t the ones profiting.