Are you with open access science, cause scientific knowledge locked up behind paywalls and hindering the sharing of groundbreaking research. Academics often have to pay publishers like Elsevier (which owns 2,500 journals) to print their work, and then have to pay extra to make it open access, meaning anyone in the world can read the papers for free. At the same time, academic institutions have to pay journal subscription costs. Most of the world’s scientific knowledge is still locked behind expensive paywalls. Only around 15 percent of journals worldwide run on an open access model. But pressure is building — via the rise of academic paper pirating, and the increasing availability of prepublication manuscripts — for publishers to change their business model.
The science is the common knowledge, so it must be opened to everybody. Business is a dirty deal. People can't worship two gods Minerva and Mammon at the same time.
Definitely open acess but not by paying money. Academic paper pirating is not uncommon by those who know how to do it
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