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thenewgreen · 4024 days ago · link · · parent · post: Springer Link hacked in honor of Aaron Swartz. Thousands of articles downloaded.
How much longer can the antiquated system of paywalls for scientific work continue? Are there sites working on disrupting this? Why isn't there a free site that the most prominent scientists all agree to only publish to? My guess is that there is a lot of power centralized in these old publications and the scientists, in large part, dare not piss them off. Is there truth to that? b_b, theadvancedapes, mk -My resident scientists that I follow. Are there new places that are all about open-sourced knowledge in the sciences?