As a retired chemist I can attest that the hiding of puboished scientific papers behind a pay-wall is very counterproductive to society. All the aspects of this are wrong: the publishers don't do the research or write the papers, yet thy charge access. Most scientific work is govt. funded, and conducted often at facilities which are supported publicly, yet the public must pay to see the results of the work they supported. Scientifiec literature is often searched for a very specific purpose, and the answer required amy be buried in layers of separate publications. Authors will often cited their own previous work, so that a concept mentioned in an article amy not be fully described until gong through several articles by the same author. Viewing on a time-rent, no copy basis can be $35/article. Actually getting fully access to anarticle is usually about $45. It's a nice racket.
As a retired chemist I can attest that the hiding of puboished scientific papers behind a pay-wall is very counterproductive to society. All the aspects of this are wrong: the publishers don't do the research or write the papers, yet thy charge access. Most scientific work is govt. funded, and conducted often at facilities which are supported publicly, yet the public must pay to see the results of the work they supported. Scientifiec literature is often searched for a very specific purpose, and the answer required amy be buried in layers of separate publications. Authors will often cited their own previous work, so that a concept mentioned in an article amy not be fully described until gong through several articles by the same author. Viewing on a time-rent, no copy basis can be $35/article. Actually getting fully access to anarticle is usually about $45. It's a nice racket.
How true.
As a retired chemist I can attest that the hiding of puboished scientific papers behind a pay-wall is very counterproductive to society. All the aspects of this are wrong: the publishers don't do the research or write the papers, yet thy charge access. Most scientific work is govt. funded, and conducted often at facilities which are supported publicly, yet the public must pay to see the results of the work they supported. Scientifiec literature is often searched for a very specific purpose, and the answer required amy be buried in layers of separate publications. Authors will often cited their own previous work, so that a concept mentioned in an article amy not be fully described until gong through several articles by the same author. Viewing on a time-rent, no copy basis can be $35/article. Actually getting fully access to anarticle is usually about $45. It's a nice racket.
As a retired chemist I can attest that the hiding of puboished scientific papers behind a pay-wall is very counterproductive to society. All the aspects of this are wrong: the publishers don't do the research or write the papers, yet thy charge access. Most scientific work is govt. funded, and conducted often at facilities which are supported publicly, yet the public must pay to see the results of the work they supported. Scientifiec literature is often searched for a very specific purpose, and the answer required amy be buried in layers of separate publications. Authors will often cited their own previous work, so that a concept mentioned in an article amy not be fully described until gong through several articles by the same author. Viewing on a time-rent, no copy basis can be $35/article. Actually getting fully access to anarticle is usually about $45. It's a nice racket.