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On the open-access publishing model, in which journal articles or other academic works are made available to readers free of charge.

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What can a non-researcher/academic do to promote open access?

Some thoughts: Write their representatives in government. Encourage them to support open access mandates for publicly funded science. Write the authors of open access papers they do read, and thank …
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Is it advisable to put entire source of my thesis up on GitHub?

I'm told for your field that the answer might be yes, because you're slightly less threatened in terms of being scooped than most, with physics (apparently) going largely by who submits first. I woul …
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If an author does not intend to make much revenue from a book, why not make it open-access?

There are a number of reasons why not to, and they stem from the reasons one might want to publish a book, even if you aren't making much if any money: The prestige of the publisher matters. For man …
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Why do tenured professors still publish in pay-walled venues?

A couple reasons come to mind: Tenured professors still care about prestige. And they still have promotions to consider - for example, from Associate to Full Professor, or if they fancy going after …
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Does gold open-access with article processing charge (APC) really help access to science and...

Isn't it reasonable to use the options that we have to freely give access to our work (self-archiving, sending preprint to people who ask politely, etc.). Many academics don't self-archive, espec …
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Why do journals require authors to provide funding information?

Funding information is often required even when a journal has no open source option to it. The source of funding is a major potential conflict of interest, and as such is a key piece of information in …
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Why do universities have to spend money on journals?

My take on parts of your question: Currently we do have an arXiv, maintained by academia and where researchers regularly upload parts of their work. I may be on something of a crusade against ar …
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Why pay a fee to have your article (in a subscription-based journal) made open access when y...

In fact, most respected researchers in mathematics/computer science/physics/etc. also publish to the arXiv. As such, I am confused as to why this model of open access exists. What demand is it sati …
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Why and how commonly are scientists concerned about open peer review?

I don't know that there are any surveys looking at this, but some concerns I have, or have heard from peers, involve the following: Open means open, which results in a way more expansive definition …
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