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Preprints offer a way forward here, allowing scientists to both publish in "prestigious" venues and disseminate their work more easily:

See for example http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/science/asap-bio-biologist...




Unfortunately, the preprint loophole doesn't really help all that much (depending on the publisher).

A few stipulations come along with publishing preprints -- for example, IEEE makes you take down the preprint and add a copyright notice to it after your paper has been accepted.

https://www.ieee.org/documents/author_faq.pdf


It depends on the field, but some areas are more friendly toward this than others.




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