RE: Breathing New Life into Old Biological Studies with GIS
Actually, the main topic of this post (not the Como example but the rest) is super important.
Concerning what you said in the very first paragraph, I am for instance happy to work within a community where articles are posted on the web before being even submitted to a journal. As a result, everything is available for free, even the non-published stuff. And sometimes, non-published stuff is very useful!
To come back to the other point (beyond the example) of your articles, data preservation is an actual question in science today. A large amount of financial and human efforts is injected in many studies, and having these disappearing from the landscape is at the end of the day a waste of resources, IMO. It is therefore the reason why digitizing and open access are primordial.
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Lemouth is Correct
and a significant number of studies are not published because the author couldn't afford entry fees to the "Publishing Machine" which rules the science world. There are a significant number of studies which are excellent, which were done by financially poor scientists.
Fortunately, there are systems being created now which allow scientists to publish their works without having to pay substantial fees. :)
Some of such systems exist for about 20 years :)
Thanks for your thoughts! I am glad to hear that there are communities of researchers sharing data and knowledge. The amount of money and effort that goes into conducting these studies is too great to not preserve the results in some fashion.