Borrowing from Kaveh Bakhtiyari's blog:

Researchers wish to contribute to science. They develop new concepts, new knowledge, and new findings. Once they have achieved a finding, they publish it as a scientific article in a scholarly journal or a relevant conference. Publication of scientific articles is an important step for every single scientist to have his/her research spread among the other scholars. There are quite a number of reasons that scientists like to publish their work. Firstly, the basic reason for publication is to share their findings to promote the worldwide knowledge. They publish their results with the detail description of how they have done the research. So that other researchers can replicate the same work and probably expand it accordingly to contribute new knowledge. Secondly, they would like to apply for grants or to graduate from university. Thirdly, they would like to get promotions in academia. Last but not least, they would like to be recognized and to increase their reputations (e.g. h-Index) which may end up with a higher salary or a better job position.

Borrowing from Kaveh Bakhtiyari's blog:

Researchers wish to contribute to science. They develop new concepts, new knowledge, and new findings. Once they have achieved a finding, they publish it as a scientific article in a scholarly journal or a relevant conference. Publication of scientific articles is an important step for every single scientist to have his/her research spread among the other scholars. There are quite a number of reasons that scientists like to publish their work. Firstly, the basic reason for publication is to share their findings to promote the worldwide knowledge. They publish their results with the detail description of how they have done the research. So that other researchers can replicate the same work and probably expand it accordingly to contribute new knowledge. Secondly, they would like to apply for grants or to graduate from university. Thirdly, they would like to get promotions in academia. Last but not least, they would like to be recognized and to increase their reputations (e.g. h-Index) which may end up with a higher salary or a better job position.

Dear, Dr. Anton Vrdoljak

Thanks for this contribution, i totally agree with you.

Anton Vrdoljak , Ademilade Aboginije

Thanks for the very helpful answer

A good response from Anton. I tell my HDR research students, during publication workshops etc, that they have a moral and ethical responsibility to publish. I question them - why conduct research if it is not to benefit others - including the public at large? I stress that research should not be seen as a 'means to an end' i.e. a HDR qualification - but as an ongoing journey. If they want a career in academia - then there are the pragmatics - but this also applies for working in most industries. Research skills are valued in most industries.

For informing the scientific community, Sharing the new knowledge and fact, sometimes for creating awareness. ...

Dean Whitehead and Md. Shiblur Rahaman

Thanks for this contribution

There are so many thoughts in my head ... I really want to share them (;-/).

Dear; Vadim S. Gorshkov

I have a lot of questions ..

I feel that we are in a commercial market in the form of scientific institutions

I read today that a publishing company made $ 1 billion in a year

Researchers are tired to make part of their ambition and benefit others to profit

No one organizes, achieves or repairs

Dear Dr. Taher Alkhalaf

This means that the market is very profitable. No wonder so many reputable (and not so) journals exist. And even more trying to get into this market (often called "pirate"). Therefore, I understand the people who publish their articles on free sites.

Incidentally, I published two ideas that could well be patented. The idea was roughly the same - "take it for free." If I still learn to earn in another way ...