Science magazine just tried to defend its paywall and totally missed the point - ScienceAlert

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-05-04

Summary:

"In case you've missed it, over the past year there's been a quiet war brewing over how we access knowledge. In the one corner there are illegal sites such as Sci-Hub, which has made nearly every journal article ever published available free online. On the other side there are the traditional journal publishers, who would like us all to pay for knowledge, thank you very much. Now, the editor-in-chief over at Science magazine has swung back at Sci-Hub in an editorial explaining why everyone who has the means to pay for traditional journal access should be doing it. And, as you might expect, the initial response has been an overwhelming nope ..."

Link:

http://www.sciencealert.com/science-magazine-just-tried-to-defend-its-paywall-and-totally-missed-the-point

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.sci-hub oa.piracy oa.debates oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

05/04/2016, 12:34

Date published:

05/04/2016, 08:34