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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not every community does it this way. For example, computational linguistics put most of their conference proceedings online for free: https://aclanthology.org/. Deep learning researchers just publish a lot of stuff to arxiv.

Academic publishers like Elsevier are predatory scammers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep if something in CS and adjacent fields isn't open access (or there's a pre-print floating around somewhere) chances are it's a textbook, not worth reading, or is obscure/arcane and was written with a typewriter. Heck some of the best stuff is blogposts by people who don't happen to be in a publish or perish situation so why bother with journals. (Trouble with that, of course, is a lack of doi but what's archive.org for).

Meanwhile there's fields which can't even figure out TeX.