• Luke@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    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?

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      6 hours ago

      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.