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>>sixtyf+(OP)
What are pragmatic things that we can do to push for open access for academic papers?

>>jf+ih
Just encourage people to upload their paper to an open access archive like arXiv first. Very few journals disallow this, it's just that authors are either too lazy or just don't want to make their paper publicly available.

>>joeber+qk
It's also very field-specific. Like in computer science, almost everyone uploads to arXiv.

>>sam0x1+Gl
Yeah same in some fields of Physics, for example all theoretical stuff, along with most optical or optomechanical stuff is always on the arXiv, however for example some obscure paper on seismic noise might only be in some very expensive journal