Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers in the field. That’s why we need to address the threat of major publishers and platforms having an improper influence on how scientific knowledge is accessed—or outright suppressed. Infrastructure we rely on must be built in the open and on interoperable standards, and hostile to corporate (or governmental) takeovers. Universities and the science community are well situated to lead this fight.
  • whoever loves Digit@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Sounds hard to solve. Maybe we need hobbyist scientists who get their income in a different way and just publish studies wherever they feel like, or something

    • Pika@rekabu.ru
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      1 day ago

      I’d say a noncommercial, maybe UN-backed index that is widely recognized would help.

      Also, journal format is extremely outdated. We need to reform the way we store scientific data, and create an international standard.

    • howrar@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Honestly, if my career didn’t rely on it, I would entirely skip the publishing part of science. It takes so much more work to communicate your findings than to make them. Of course, that doesn’t help the cause since no one else will be able to build off of my work if I don’t share it.