Vox: 'The War to Free Science', 2019, Resnick and Belluz

Denise · Jun 12, 2019

The war to free science

How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls.

By Brian Resnick and Julia Belluz Updated Jun 10, 2019, 9:18am EDT

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https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2...elsevier-california-sci-hub-academic-paywalls

CFS_for_19_years · Jun 17, 2019

From the Vox article above:

But Sci-Hub is just one tool to get around paywalls. Scientists are also increasingly publishing prepublication versions of their studies (often called preprints). These study drafts are free to access.
The problem is that often, these studies have not yet been peer-reviewed. But advocates of preprints say they’re a net benefit to science: They allow for the public discussion of papers before they’re set in a finalized form — a type of peer review. And there are more preprints than ever before. (Some of the preprint servers are owned by the big publishers too.)
To find these preprints, all it takes is a single click: Unpaywall, a browser extension, helps users find the preprints associated with paywalled journal articles.
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