A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Quote from:
Ghaddar, J.J., Caswell, M. “To go beyond”: towards a decolonial archival praxis. Arch Sci 19, 71–85 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09311-1
Do not let them gatekeep knowledge. Call it what you want.
Free sharing of information, particularly publicly funded information is not theft. That is all.
I use sci-hub because it is quicker and easier than logging into my multiple affiliation's library accounts, navigating through their janky web portals and search tools, and then finding out I need to switch to a different account/library /catalogue /whatever to read the paper.
This is the way.
As the great Gaben says, piracy is a service issue
Couldn't a platform like arxiv.org come up with a peer review system so they can be more than just preprints? Make it a full fledged open access platform for fully peer reviewed articles.
Also why are we still stuck in this shitty system where the Elselviers of the world are limiting access to our collective research?
Cool! Didn't know this existed. Thanks
That's exactly the goal of Peer Community In: you put your paper on some archive, you ask a "Recommender" to recommend the paper, they select reviewers and the lot, and they decide to recommend or not your paper after some iteration of the process (classical peer review I'd say). Then you can update your paper in a final version, with a kind of stamped version saying it was recommended by XXX (the peer review process is published along as well, I believe).
It also sounds like something Catherine Walsh would write. Great quote!
I just wanted to play super mario world.