Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers
Sometimes I think the academic publishing mechanisms are broken. It takes so much time for your idea and research to be visible... you write the paper, it get reviewed, presented on a conference, published in journals and then months/years later someone actually sees it.<p>Compare that to the web, where an elaborate blog post and a project on GitHub is enough to become visible to the entire world within hours.<p>Percentage wise, how much influence did academic papers have on your day to day work in the last year compared to new stuff you found on the web?