Why open source?

Carvalho, Marilia Sá

doi:10.1590/0102-311xed010215

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“…Journal publishing house often justifies high APC citing reasons for "open access" such that they are freely available for a wider range of readers free of cost or to meet their operational cost. 5,6 Although apparently sound like a great initiative, a little more investigation reveals an underlying agenda, which is far from true when we find that a majority of this same. Publishing house ferociously opposes Sci-hub like 3d party platforms which genuinely gives free access to all readers worldwide.…”

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The problem with APC and open access: Hurdles in publishing practice

Dhar¹,

Talukdar²,

Kumar³

et al. 2022

Asian J Med Sci

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Publish or perish has been the mantra for researchers and scientists. It is an aphorism describing the sheer pressure to publish academic work in order to succeed in an academic career. After all what good one has done if they didn’t even publish an article in a good journal. A good journal is the one with the highest impact factor. The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. An Impact Factor of 1.0 means that, on average, the articles published 1 or 2 years ago have been cited one time. While the impact factor metric is very unreliable to judge the quality of the journal or published paper, as numerous unfair and dubious means were frequently adopted to boost the journal impactfactors. But still, the race is on with the psychology to publish in higher impact journals as it is often associated with greater academic rewards. What emerged out of this race is that journals and the publishing houses ramped the article processing charges (APC) to an astronomical level, which was unprecedented before. APC for a few BMC, MDPI, SAGE DOVE press journals on an average exceed 2000 USD, equivalent to few months salary of the Principle Investigtor. Journal publishing house often justifies high APC citing reasons for “open access” such that they are freely available for a wider range of readers free of cost or to meet their operational cost. Although apparently sound like a great initiative, a little more investigation reveals an underlying agenda, which is far from true when we find that a majority of this same. Publishing house ferociously opposes Sci-hub like 3d party platforms which genuinely gives free access to all readers worldwide. Recently, three major academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a copyright infringement suit in the Delhi High Court, India against “Sci-Hub” and “Libgen” which provide free access to millions of research papers/books. This clearly indicates that their intentions are misaligned with what they say. High APC is a means to just earn larger profit margins. Publishing house does mention a fee waiver for low-income countries but is exploited and abused instead of this as a helping gesture. Scientific research can hardly proceed in solo. It needs infrastructure, trained manpower, logistic support, and high-level coordination. Providing fee waivers for publication to countries that hardly can feed its starving populations makes little sense because either way, these countries are far behind to have material to publish or to engage in any credible research. Instead what is happening is what is called “author swapping” wherein the corresponding or co-corresponding authors are cherry-picked from these improvised nations for APC waiver without them anyway participating in the scientific study. This is surely unethical. Journals are also reported extorting authors who fail to pay the APC. There are other flip sides of APC. High APC skew only those rich and affluent labs/groups who may be able to afford them, something getting away even with mediocre articles while genuine data from less affluent labs may never be able to reach these journals. This trend is growing alarmingly high, filtering out publications only from wealthy labs. Though the scientific community is well aware of this, very little is actually done to prevent this as the nexus runs deep benefiting few who can afford it. Unless this chain is broken, future science may just be determined by those who can afford the high APC to get into the highest impact journals, and not by the quality of science.

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“…moreover for SME they often have problematic about budget for implementation system. So they should be more detailing about the advantage and disadvantage if we using Proprietary software or open source software, in open source inspection process is managed by independent developers or user it's different with proprietary software have sophisticated testing tools [1] [2]. This research is driven by the question of which type of software licensing is suitable for medium class enterprises, Open Source or Proprietary Software ?…”

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Comparison of Software Licensing and Development Models Using Val IT

Hamid¹

2019

Annual Conference on Management and Information Technology

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Today Small Medium Enterprise (SME) in Indonesia increasingly growing, along with the growth of business done, of course must be offset by existing IT in the company, due to support the performance of the company. Who originally used it daily jobs done manually will be diverted to use software to help the work. But sometimes to develop the IT application, the obstacle typically encountered is about the budget for the investment of IT itself, therefore in this paper the authors compare the advantages and disadvantages between open source software and software Proprietary using VAL IT as a framework. For the result of the Open Source Software is low cost because the the code it is free but company should spend budget for the training and for the report the company need to learn to create the reporting. While for software Proprietary is high cost but support is conducted regularly for operational and for just ask the vendor to create report.

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Why open source?

Cited by 4 publications

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The problem with APC and open access: Hurdles in publishing practice

Comparison of Software Licensing and Development Models Using Val IT

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