https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/113/40006
Are there any serious solutions to solving the inadequacies inherent in our current academic publishing systems? Poor, curious fags cannot afford papers and journals. Massive time-delays between submission and publication are a sickening combination in conjunction with inefficient methods of peer review that are susceptible to internal politics polluting the integrity of the process. I recognize gate-keeping as a necessary action for maintaining standards of quality for the content it protects. I recognize that curious minds and adept researchers require funding to do their work. I recognize that financing is required in order to promote development and reliable operation of publication services. Yet this ugly system is the one you rely upon to to foster humankind's greatest fruits of labor - knowledge.
Surely we can do better. A curious and able soul should have unbridled access to ever bit of knowledge he could ever conceive to posit as a question, and to quickly learn what others have discovered led by similar thoughts. Every dollar tacked to every journal and paper is time this person must spend laboring away in the physical world, doing work that is probably of no consequence whatsoever to advancing humanity or knowledge, and allowing this person to waste their mental faculties on the menial tasks of acquiring what already exists, and can be reproduced for fractions of penny on their computer. All of current society, and even more so its future members, benefit from the pursuit and advancement of knowledge. I am guilty, as I bring no solutions of my own to the table. I wish to hear what others have to say on the matter.
Are there any serious solutions to solving the inadequacies inherent in our current academic publishing systems? Poor, curious fags cannot afford papers and journals. Massive time-delays between submission and publication are a sickening combination in conjunction with inefficient methods of peer review that are susceptible to internal politics polluting the integrity of the process. I recognize gate-keeping as a necessary action for maintaining standards of quality for the content it protects. I recognize that curious minds and adept researchers require funding to do their work. I recognize that financing is required in order to promote development and reliable operation of publication services. Yet this ugly system is the one you rely upon to to foster humankind's greatest fruits of labor - knowledge.
Surely we can do better. A curious and able soul should have unbridled access to ever bit of knowledge he could ever conceive to posit as a question, and to quickly learn what others have discovered led by similar thoughts. Every dollar tacked to every journal and paper is time this person must spend laboring away in the physical world, doing work that is probably of no consequence whatsoever to advancing humanity or knowledge, and allowing this person to waste their mental faculties on the menial tasks of acquiring what already exists, and can be reproduced for fractions of penny on their computer. All of current society, and even more so its future members, benefit from the pursuit and advancement of knowledge. I am guilty, as I bring no solutions of my own to the table. I wish to hear what others have to say on the matter.
