I blogged earlier today why I try to publish all my work gold Open Access. My ImpactStory profile shows I score 93% and note that with that 10% of the scientists in general score in that range. But then again, some publisher do make it hard for us to publish gold Open Access. And then if STM industries spreads FUD for their and only their good ("Sci-Hub does not add any value to the scholarly community.", doi:10.1038/nature.2017.22196), I get annoyed. Particularly, as the system makes young scientists believe that transferring copyright to a publisher (for free, in most cases) is a normal thing to do.

As said, I have no doubt that under current copyright law it was to be expected that Sci-Hub was going to be judged to violate that law.

It sounds like a problem not so common in western Europe, but it was when I was a fresh student (around 1994). The Radboud's University Library certainly did not have all journals and for one journal I had to go to a research department and sit in their coffee room. Not a problem at all. Big Package deals improved access, but created a vendor lock-in. And we're paying Big Time for these deals now, with insane year-over-year inflation of the prices.

Over the past 20 years I have had endless discussions into what the research is that I do. Many see my work as engineer, but I vigorously disagree. But some days it's just too easy to give up and explain things yet again. The question came up on the past few month several times again, and I am suggested to make a choice.

This paper was long overdue. But software papers are not easy to write, particularly not follow up papers. That actually seems a lot easier for databases. Moreover, we already publish too much. However, the scholarly community does not track software citations (data citations neither, but there seems to be a bit more momentum there; larger user group?). So, we need these kind of papers, and just a version, archived software release (e.g. on Zenodo) is not enough.
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