Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you

Autores
Bonnin, Juan Eduardo
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
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.
Fil: Bonnin, Juan Eduardo. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Humanidades. Laboratorio de Investigación En Ciencias Humanas. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Laboratorio de Investigación en Ciencias Humanas; Argentina
Materia
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
PIRACY
QUARANTINE
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acceso abierto
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
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Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you
title Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you
spellingShingle Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you
Bonnin, Juan Eduardo
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
PIRACY
QUARANTINE
title_short Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you
title_full Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you
title_fullStr Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you
title_full_unstemmed Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you
title_sort Free access to scholarly e-books and articles?: Thank you, but no, thank you
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bonnin, Juan Eduardo
author Bonnin, Juan Eduardo
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PIRACY
QUARANTINE
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PIRACY
QUARANTINE
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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.
Fil: Bonnin, Juan Eduardo. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Humanidades. Laboratorio de Investigación En Ciencias Humanas. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Laboratorio de Investigación en Ciencias Humanas; Argentina
description 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.
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