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Arxiv feels like the most legitimate "journal" these days. It'd be sci-hub except they seem to have managed to kill it finally

The business of IP has so hollowed out the credibility of its brokers that the business part (like the stock price) has become its only remaining value, and scientific journals are absolutely included here if their publishing method doesn't preserve the goddamn body of evidence we claim science relies on

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Do not forget that you are charged when you publish your work in scientific journals. Would you not expect your published work to be preserved?

One might think this, but that you are guaranteed anything (even if you are explicitly promised it) by a for-profit corporation is a foolhardy and sometimes even dangerous thing to take for granted

> Arxiv feels like the most legitimate "journal" these days.

Fun fact: it was created initially as a central repository mailbox for physics preprints at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Yup, the same Los Alamos that we know from the Manhattan project.

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