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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With authors often paying for open access publications literally out of their very own money, not just grants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not at the time this happened. Aaron's case was one of the motivating factors that led to the Open Access publication movement gaining enough traction that authors could publish that way. JSTOR access is paid for and administered on college campuses by libraries and librarians as a whole field felt terrible both about the paid publication system and the way Aaron was treated. As a community of professionals, the Librarian and Information Science community pushed very hard for the adoption of Open Access publishing into the Academic community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Good to know we had something very good out of this.

Now, let's beat the living hell out of publishers so that those crazy open access publication prices would decimate.

Because right now, I literally cannot afford publishing further than Q3, which already eats up most of my personal grant earnings (which are so bad I can say I work purely for an idea).