As someone who has been through the university, earned a PhD, got grants, published, worked for startups, and now works for a large publisher, is it reasonable to think that I might be more informed than the average person on this topic?
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This process that facilitates communication of research is important and worth paying for. I believe more people would agree if they knew all that editors do.
Which is why it’s nothing short of scandalous that so much publicly funded work is subject to extreme gatekeeping practices that limit access to extremely narrow & costly channels.
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Your point about the gatekeeping is well made. It's part of way the signal to noise ratio is kept high, but has been unnecessarily restrictive at times. Preprint repositories and inexpensive open access journals are making it better.
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Shout out to http://Arxiv.org ,
@cshperspectives & Bioarxiv,@OSFramework, and@PLOS for leading the way here.
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