Closed access academic journals are evil

Fuck closed access academic journals are evils.

You are nothing but useless leeches in the Internet age.

You must go bankrupt all of you, ASAP.

Fuck Elsevier, fuck Springer, and fuck all the like.

Research paid with taxpayer money must be made available for free.

Researchers and reviewers all work for peanuts, while academic publishers get money for doing the work that an algorithm could do. OurBigBook.com.

When Ciro learned URLs such as www.nature.com/articles/181662a0 log you in automatically by IP, his mind blew! The level of institutionalization of this theft is off the charts! The institutionalization of theft is also clear from article prices, e.g. 32 dollars for a 5 page article.

Long live the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz (2008).

Key physics papers from the 50's are still copyright encumbered as of 2020, see e.g. Lamb-Retherford experiment. Authors and reviewers got nothing for it. Something is wrong.

Infinite list of other people:

blog.machinezoo.com/public-domain-theft by Robert Važan:
Scientific journals are perhaps one of the most damaging IP rackets. Scientists are funded by governments to do research and publish papers. Reviews of these papers are done by other publicly funded scientists. Even paper selection and formatting for publication is done by scientists. So what do journals actually do? Nearly nothing.

Video 12. Academic Publishing by Dr. Glaucomflecken (2022) Source.

Closed access academic journals are evil

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