A bug in the website of the science publisher Springer Link was exploited to automatically download low resolution copies of hundreds of thousands of scientific articles.
How much longer can the antiquated system of paywalls for scientific work continue? Are there sites working on disrupting this? Why isn't there a free site that the most prominent scientists all agree to only publish to? My guess is that there is a lot of power centralized in these old publications and the scientists, in large part, dare not piss them off. Is there truth to that? b_b, theadvancedapes, mk -My resident scientists that I follow. Are there new places that are all about open-sourced knowledge in the sciences?