This has been a common complaint with the arXiv in physics: it's great, but also not too different than it was in the early 1990s...
It'd be more convincing to see a thoughtful list of drawbacks, too. Eg, it creates an effective monopoly, which tends to suppress innovationhttps://twitter.com/NIHDirector/status/831224062760325121 …
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agree! In terms of real open-science innovation, ironically http://sci-hub.cc/ has been leading the way.
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Very short-term thinking.
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instead of central service->better: a community-maint std/def 4interop
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Better still: a vibrant ecology that enables better services to replace worse, & that
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What is creating a monopoly?
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Once there's a de facto universal standard, there's no notion of users swapping to a better service.
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then any1 can pre-print;+ w/openaccess, any1 can search, id, reuse,etc
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@RickyPo@NIHDirector or a more convincing list of advantages that acknowledged two decades of infrastructure developmentThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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