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by phillipsmg 1425 days ago
I would love for people to work on open science. I think it's near criminal that tax-payer funded science sits behind paywalls.

It's gradually changing, but the publishing companies make an extraordinary amount of money by acting as a bogus distribution system. They've managed to sit between academics and readers and charge both sides for doing nothing.

That being said, this isn't so much a tooling problem as a social one..