Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 hours agoMeet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for freewww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1520arrow-down11
arrow-up1519arrow-down1external-linkMeet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for freewww.independent.co.ukUniversal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareLuke@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·7 hours agoIgnorant 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?
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-26 hours agoIf 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.
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?
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.