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This is seriously the worry people have? Scribd hosts documents for free. Academia.edu hosts documents for free and in fact ENCOURAGES academics to post papers there. If a website is willing to host the papers for free versus having a system where we spend millions on research so that journals can put it behind their paywall I feel like the future has written itself already.


From the petition:

"Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet"

I'm just pointing out that requiring it to be posted on the internet requires someone to host it.


(Shrug) Any research worth paying for is going to cost a million times more than hosting the resulting documents. I don't follow you.




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