Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
dublinben · 4334 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hiding your research behind a paywall is immoral
That sounds like a terrible deal. I'm sorry you had to sign your rights away just to get published. Paid journals really are scum.
This system is not long for the world. Enough people hate it that it will collapse soon. In the beginning online only journals, especially open access ones, were looked at as the ghetto of academic publishing. These days there are several that people take very seriously. PLoS One (and all the family of PLoS journals) is the most famous, and I really respect what they do. I think you'll continue to see these grow until they just take over. To paraphrase Max plank: There are no scientific revolutions; the older generation just eventually dies.