tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post5370238145507088325..comments2024-03-28T13:39:27.601-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: Pre-publication Peer Review Subtracts ValueDavid.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-2160931156948028462018-08-09T06:23:52.014-07:002018-08-09T06:23:52.014-07:00"In fact, Sci-Hub has become such a commonly ..."In fact, Sci-Hub has become such a commonly used tool for some scientists that they include Sci-Hub URLs in the references sections of their published papers. Ironically, there are even links to Sci-Hub in papers published by Elsevier, showing how dangerously useful it is." reports <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-proves-that-piracy-can-be-dangerously-useful-180804/" rel="nofollow">Ernesto at <i>TorrentFreak</i></a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-12234268525252323892018-05-28T18:53:49.036-07:002018-05-28T18:53:49.036-07:00"In 1942, the US Book Republication Program p..."In 1942, the US Book Republication Program permitted American publishers to reprint "exact reproductions" of Germany's scientific texts without payment; seventy-five years later, the fate of this scientific knowledge forms the basis of a "natural experiment" analysed by Barbara Biasi and Petra Moser for The Center for Economic and Policy Research, who compare the fate of these texts to their contemporaries who didn't have this semi-public-domain existence.<br /><br />Here's the headline finding: "This artificial removal of copyright barriers led to a 25% decline in prices, and a 67% increase in citations. These results suggest that restrictive copyright policies slow down the progress of science considerably." <br /><br /><a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/05/28/67-pct-more-citations.html" rel="nofollow">Cory Doctorow points us</a> to Barbara Biasi and Petra Moser's <a href="https://voxeu.org/article/effects-copyrights-science" rel="nofollow"><i>Effects of copyrights on science</i></a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-75140400330447553542018-04-09T16:38:12.802-07:002018-04-09T16:38:12.802-07:00You don't need to pay Springer $39.95, because...You don't need to pay Springer $39.95, because the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09701" rel="nofollow">final version of Klein <i>et al</i> is now up on arXiv.org</a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.com