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Having read the article, this comment seems to come out of nowhere.

The content creators want their work to be free, and none of the stuff you're posting seems to touch on that.

If that's all they wanted it would be easy - just post it on a blog. What they really want is access to the journal infrastructure - I'm reminded of the French newspapers who want Google to pay them for inclusion in Google news, on the basis that they produce the content.

It's not so much the infrastructure, it's the stamp of approval that publishing in a peer-reviewed journal gives your work. Work you post on a blog wouldn't be seen as serious scientific output.

Well, no, because they don't want to just publish articles, they want to publish peer reviewed articles. And the really pivotal point is that journals don't even pay the review boards.

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