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rk · 4831 days ago · link · · parent · post: How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?
Yeah. It can be annoying when you're doing research and then you hit a paywall. The exorbitant fees all but guarantee that individuals won't have access. You have to have affiliations with universities or other monied organizations.
I wish citing a paper is as easy as using apt in Ubuntu or importing a module in Python. We need an open access journal. Open source too. Where the papers and their associated datasets are hosted as well. That way we can just fork them if we think of something more interesting to do with the original research.