Artículo
Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you
Fecha de publicación:
05/2020
Editorial:
Tilburg University
Revista:
Diggit magazine
ISSN:
2589-6741
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
Clasificación temática:
Resumen
Academic publishers have begun to offer free access to their content. They present this action both as a positive response to global quarantine measures and as an active response to COVID-19 research. What is the reason for this unexpected generosity? Did publishers suddenly realize that scientific knowledge should benefit everyone, and not be used commercially to make a profit? Did they recognize that they have an immoral business model which relies on the work done for free by thousands of scientist around the world who write and review for them? Did governments realize how stupid it is to fund scientific research with public money and then pay again to access the results of that very same public-funded research? I offer here a hypothesis: publishers are afraid that, ultimately, scientists will inevitably realize that they are unnecessary and both third and first world scholars would resource to alternative sources of knowledge, mainly, academic pirate sites such as Sci-Hub and Libgen.
Palabras clave:
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
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PIRACY
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QUARANTINE
Archivos asociados
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Colecciones
Articulos(OCA PQUE. CENTENARIO)
Articulos de OFICINA DE COORDINACION ADMINISTRATIVA PQUE. CENTENARIO
Articulos de OFICINA DE COORDINACION ADMINISTRATIVA PQUE. CENTENARIO
Citación
Bonnin, Juan Eduardo; Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you; Tilburg University; Diggit magazine; 5-2020; 1-1
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