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I'm trying to read a #Neuroscience paper published by #Wiley and it's showing me a banner that says only "healthcare professionals" should be reading the paper. What's up with that? Researchers are not allowed to read papers anymore? 🤔

Impossible to find a way to contact Wiley about it, but maybe someone out there will know them and might be able to ask what is happening?

The paper: Locomotor action sequences impact the scale of
representation in hippocampus and posterior parietal cortex #NitzLab #WileyOnlineLibrary #Academia

Screenshot of a banner seen on the Wiley publisher website when accessing a neuroscience article saying: "This material is only for use by healthcare professionals. By continuing to view this site you are confirming that you are a healthcare professional."
#academia #neuroscience #wiley #nitzlab #wileyonlinelibrary
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Sam Levine
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I think it's meant to discourage the general public (not including researchers) because there are people who do read the literature and wiley probably thinks there is some sort of liability if they let people read "medical" articles and maybe make decisions on their own. Basically a CYA thing.
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David
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That tracks. They think education is a lost cause so might as well just stop giving uneducated people the tools they need to survive.
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El Duvelle
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@drdrowland
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I hope it's not that because that really doesn't make sense.. and also.. this article has nothing to do with anything medical.. But even if it did people should be able to read it if they want.

Doesn't make me want to publish in a Wiley journal, not that I was considering it anyway. But I'm pretty sure the authors of that paper would not be happy with that banner.

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Redish Lab
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umm... neuroscientists ARE "health care professionals". We are professionals with knowledge that relates to health. Maybe this is a way of saying this is too complicated for journalists?
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El Duvelle
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@adredish hmm even if we consider that neuroscientists are healthcare professionals (which I wouldn't), what about other types of researchers whose field is unrelated to biology? And what about the general public, or politicians, etc.? There is no reason that I can see why they shouldn't be allowed to read this article..
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