Universal Monk to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 5 days agoMeet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for freewww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1760arrow-down11
arrow-up1759arrow-down1external-linkMeet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for freewww.independent.co.ukUniversal Monk to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 5 days agomessage-square90fedilink
minus-squareLukelinkfedilinkEnglish21•5 days agoIgnorant 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?
minus-square@ubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglish33•edit-25 days agoIf you don’t get published, you don’t get cited. If you don’t get cited, it appears your work isn’t important. That said, every researcher I’ve emailed requesting a copy of a paper gladly supplied it, and many put them up on their uni sites.
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?
If you don’t get published, you don’t get cited. If you don’t get cited, it appears your work isn’t important.
That said, every researcher I’ve emailed requesting a copy of a paper gladly supplied it, and many put them up on their uni sites.