Current Events > About half of academic articles searched through Unpaywall are accessible.

(+) Yeah! (+)

http://www.nature.com/news/half-of-papers-searched-for-online-are-free-to-read-1.22418

That's pretty good. Much higher than i would have expected.
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I don't know how accurate the last statement is, seems overly optimistic:

To Priem, the future looks open. “In the next few decades, we’re going to be seeing nearly all the literature available freely.”

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COVxy posted...

I don't know how accurate the last statement is, seems overly optimistic:

To Priem, the future looks open. “In the next few decades, we’re going to be seeing nearly all the literature available freely.”

Academia is such a fucking joke. It should all be free.
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You say that like it's a simple thing.

It's not. Like, morally, yes, it should be free. Pragmatically that's hard to implement, especially without crippling researchers even further in the current funding environment by shunting costs onto them.
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