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16 questions linked to/from Why are most scientific articles locked behind a paywall?
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Why are you required to pay or have a university relation to access most research journals? [duplicate]
High school student here...
I came here to ask this question since it seems geared more towards academia and I normally spend my time on Math.SE. Anyway...
I have a huge passion for math, I read ...
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Why do tenured professors still publish in pay-walled venues?
I wonder why tenured professors still publish in pay-walled venues. I can understand that non-tenured professors are publication pressured, but once one gets tenured, why should one still place ...
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Should I send a "cease-and-desist" letter to ResearchGate?
ResearchGate is pretty well placed on Google. But it does not have a lot of contents or active users, despite their constant invitation spam.
So they spidered a lot of publications, and provide some ...
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If an author does not intend to make much revenue from a book, why not make it open-access?
Many authors do not intend to make much revenue from books (textbooks or research books) they contribute to, yet they don't make it open access. Why?
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Why don't major research institutions systematically publish their subscription fees to scientific journals?
I read on https://ropengov.github.io/r/2016/06/10/FOI/:
Finland becomes to our knowledge the first country where annual subscription fees for all individual publishers and all major research ...
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Reference for annual journal subscription costs paid per university?
Is there any resource that lists how much each university pay in journal subscription fees? I am mostly interested in US universities (E.g. Harvard: $3.5M/year in 2014, MIT: $4M/year in 2006 for ...
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Who is earning money when users buy access to a research article?
I'm a software engineer, but I used to have to read a lot of papers about neurology. I am slightly disappointed by the high price for access to the full text of research papers. I can understand a ...
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What are the profit margins of academic publishers?
With an eye to finding the reasons behind high journal subscription costs: do journals / publishers make outrageous margins, or are prices truly justified by the costs to run journals? In other words, ...
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How much would it cost to remove pay-walls?
Is there any research/study/survey/... that tried to estimate how much it would cost to remove paper pay-walls so that all existing research papers are made publicly available free of charge?
E.g. ...
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How does LibGen/SciHub affect researchers' research and publishing process?
For those of you who don't know, LibGen is a database filled with scientific papers (and other documents) and many of them were downloaded from websites that require a paid-subscription. SciHub gives ...
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How to deal with journal requirements to share data when data comes from industry and industry partner would not permit sharing?
Many authors, especially in manufacturing, use data from real manufacturing companies (not from a lab experiment) for their research. They are asked to report only the results from their analysis on ...
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How often are authors not allowed to send their paper by email upon request?
Emailing the authors of a paper is a common way to obtain access to the paper when it is behind paywalls. However, publishing contracts may forbid authors to send their paper by email.
Is there any ...
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How often do authors send their paper by email upon request?
Emailing the authors of a paper is a common way to obtain access to the paper when it is behind paywalls.
Is there any research/study/survey that tried to quantify how often authors send their paper ...
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Why does academia still use scientific journals and not peer-reviewed government funded alternatives? [duplicate]
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Percentage of total scholarly literature available in open access repositories by year of publication broken down by discipline
I am looking for the percentage of total scholarly literature available in open access repositories by year of publication broken down by discipline.
I am aware of the following figure, however it is ...
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