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.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.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?