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A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.

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Oct 02, 2021 · abetusk on Books from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

> This series offers accessible, concise, beautifully produced books on topics of current interest. Leading thinkers write the books in this series, and experts deliver overviews of subjects that range from the cultural and the historical to the scientific and the technical.
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"Open Access" ($7.47) https://www.amazon.com/Open-Access-Press-Essential-Knowledge...

⬐ weaksauce
it's also an affiliate link grab too

⬐ WalterBright
What's the problem with that? It does not increase the price for you if you buy through them.

⬐ weaksauce
1. it puts into question their recommendations.
2. it creates an incentive to put these spam articles all over the place which creates noise.
3. they could have disclosed it and then it would have been at least transparent.

⬐ WalterBright
Let's say they have a financial incentive. In order to increase their revenues through affiliate links, they'll need to please their clickers. Because then the clickers will come back and click on more links, and recommend the site to their friends.
I.e. a financial incentive increases the incentive for the owner to create good links. No incentive means why should they care?

⬐ weaksauce
No it doesn't since clicking on a link thinking that it's a free resource and getting tricked will "taint" your amazon account for a 24 hour period. if they spam it enough and trick enough people to click on it it's not dependent on writing good "copy"

⬐ BossingAround
Using an affiliate link without disclosing it is just a scummy practice. To me, that's similar to not quoting a source. Like, come on, just put (affiliate) after the link or something.

⬐ WalterBright
Why does it offend you that someone makes money when you make use of the web site they created? It literally costs you nothing at all, while the site creator spent time and money making this available to you.

⬐ eska
Because it makes it clear that there might be a wrong incentive for recommending that product.
For the same reason people on here write „Company X is better than Y for Z reasons. Disclaimer: I work for company X“

⬐ WalterBright
Do you also feel that the Beatles had the wrong incentive for creating music because they got rich off of it?

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