Sci-Hub Has Changed How We Access Knowledge

If the $10 billion industry that feeds off academic publishing was removed, would it speed up research?

CrazyNeutrino said:

Sci-Hub Has Changed How We Access Knowledge

If the $10 billion industry that feeds off academic publishing was removed, would it speed up research?

ArXiV certainly did in physics and mathematics.

But only temporarily. I’ve noticed that the quality of astrophysics articles on ArXiV has been getting worse, so we’re getting more papers of lower quality. Imagine if all research was only published in blogs.

mollwollfumble said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Sci-Hub Has Changed How We Access Knowledge

If the $10 billion industry that feeds off academic publishing was removed, would it speed up research?

ArXiV certainly did in physics and mathematics.

But only temporarily. I’ve noticed that the quality of astrophysics articles on ArXiV has been getting worse, so we’re getting more papers of lower quality. Imagine if all research was only published in blogs.

Worse, imagine if fictional novel description were only chemical?