Open-access in science or why you can't read papers | Meta-Science

Why are papers pay walled, what is a journal, and how did we get here?

In this video we'll look at a brief history of publishing in academia and how it affects science, the difference between open and closed access and the true cost of publishing science.

There's a lot more to this area, meta-science, that's not been covered in this video e.g: the reproducibility crisis (in the computational sciences too not just psychology!), bias in peer-review, all models being-wrong and how to communicate it to policy makers.

Hopefully we'll return to those in the future, let me know in the comments if you'd like to see that.

Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:09 What is publishing in science?
03:24 Journal access
04:50 Pre-Prints
06:27 Scientific publishing before journals
08:01 Journals emerge; Transactions
12:52 For-profit publishing of science
13:33 Springer rises
14:23 For-profit publishing today
15:09 Open access
16:39 The cost of open access
19:30 How to access papers
21:58 Synthesis
23:12 Note

References:

A. Kenny, A New History of Western Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, isbn: 978-0199656493

L. Corry, A Brief History of Numbers. Oxford University Press, 2015, isbn: 9780198702597

R. Van Noorden, “Open access: The true cost of science publishing,” Nature News, vol. 495, no. 7442, p. 426, 2013.

Carl Friedrich Gauss. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. 1801

Leonhard Euler. Mechanica. 1736.

Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. 1859.

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