A growing number of researchers are unsatisfied with the way science works. The pressure to publish big is imminent and there is a current crisis to keep people in academia. This video is about the day academia was broken.

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Robert Maxwell is an entrepeneur who reshaped scientific publishing. In the 1950s, he offered the best services to enable efficient publishing. Maxwell's publishing company increased rapidly in size and he made unprecedented profits. Maxwell also started to charge fees to access journals. At the same time, publising became more and more selective. As a result, the h-index and the impact factor were developed to assess the productivity of scientists and journals. Although these numbers have some important implications, they might have also broken academia. Now, scientists need to follow trending research topics in order to secure funding and positions. As a result, some crucial research topics might be underappreciated.
In response to the growing costs of scientific publishing, Alexandra Elbakyan founded sci-hub, an illegal platform that shares scientific content. For her invention, Elbakyan faces copyright sources. Other institutions have started to negotiate "open-access" as the standard model which means that articles need to be accessible to everyone. These problems have intensified in the past years, these problems have only instensified - let's see how the story goes on!

References: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-...

00:00-0:48 Intro
0:48- 6:37 The endless Stream of Money in Academia
6:37-7:22 Big Science Blockbusters
7:22-8:56 How Academia was Broken
8:56-13:20 Should Knowledge be free?


About Clemens Steinek:
CLEMENS STEINEK is a PhD student/youtuber (Sciencerely) who is currently conducting stem cell research in Germany.