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Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper
Glyn Moody writes "Peter Murray Rust, a chemist at Cambridge University, was lost for words when he found Oxford University Press's website demanded $48 from him to access his own scientific paper, in which he holds copyright and which he released under a Creative Commons license. As he writes, the journal in question was "selling my intellectual property, without my permission, against the terms of the license (no commercial use)." In the light of this kind of copyright abuse and of the PRISM Coalition, a new FUD group set up by scientific publishers to discredit open access, isn't it time to say enough is enough, and demand free access to the research we pay for through our taxes?"
If scientists are so bigoted they only deign to acknowledge work published in overpriced, unnecessary, exploitative publishers' journals, the problem is on the scientists' end.
It's not scientists, it's the Academic types. upper Academics are full of bigots and always has been. Real geniuses always get panned by them until their research generates a huge uproar ouside their little silly boys club. Einstein, had to deal with the Bigots as well as many MANY other geniuses of our time.
It has always been that way, and is why more and more of the newer science students are going against it and breaking ranks. honestly it should have happened decades ago but they have quite a bit of power over you as a researcher if they do not allow your work to be published in their holy tomes.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.