Scientific Paywalls Criticism

Paywalls for scientific research are evil.Here's the full paper: http://209.20.67.195/misc/littleexercise.pdf(See profile for why I do what I do.)

This is a relevant read: http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/50096804256/why-is-science...

The arxiv is freely accessible, the journal link isn’t.

What are pragmatic things that we can do to push for open access for academic papers?

false. even in extremely well-funded academic labs, journal access can be sparse. i have heard the line "i could only read the abstract for free, but..." from PIs more than a handful of times.

these fields dont have an open access problem to begin with (thanks to arxiv).

It's continually frustrating that articles like this don't link to the original research. In the age of Sci-Hub, research is so much more accessible than ever before. More non-academic traffic to publishers' sites might even encourage them to offer sensible legal ways of getting hold of papers too, as JSTOR have.I couldn't immediately find a DOI for this -- it's possible, of course, that it's unpublished (it sounds like PhD work). That would be useful to know, to

It is an important point in principle that should be solved.However, in practice that isn't an issue:1) At least in this domain, all publications are de facto open access, as in, if you just google the name of a paper in a random citation in 99% cases you will get a non-paywalled full text version - if not from the actual place of publication, then on arxiv, author's home page, etc. It's not totally appropriate as there could be differences, but it's definitely e

It's amazing that free access to scientific papers is still controversial.

aren't articles published under the domain of academia supposed to be free of charge?