Ilya Kapovich: Preprint servers: no author fees | Nature | 2012

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Summary:

"Prepublication of scientific papers on preprint servers such as arXiv.org allows prompt scrutiny of the research by the scientific community (see, for example, go.nature.com/nwjmbt). Because the results are freely accessible, the arXiv approach is infinitely superior to the 'author pays' model of open-access journal publishing that is being pushed as a way to penetrate the paywall. ...Making authors pay to publish their research endangers the open and egalitarian nature of the scientific enterprise. Researchers in developing countries, unaffiliated researchers, graduate students and faculty members without large federal grants could all be priced out of publishing their work. The arXiv model offers a sensible and affordable alternative."

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https://www.nature.com/articles/489367c

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oa.arxiv oa.preprints oa.comment oa.green oa.gold oa.fees oa.development oa.south oa.economics_of oa.no-fee oa.scholcomm oa.publishing oa.ecr oa.authors oa.repositories oa.journals oa.versions

Date tagged:

12/27/2017, 10:34

Date published:

12/27/2017, 05:34