potentially depriving scholars of useful research findings

[GoodTaste]

The phrase "potentially depriving scholars of useful research findings" is not clear to me.

Does it mean "potentially denying scholars access to the useful research findings published by these journals"?


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Eighty-four online-only, open-access (OA) journals in the sciences, and nearly 100 more in the social sciences and humanities, have disappeared from the internet over the past 2 decades as publishers stopped maintaining them, potentially depriving scholars of useful research findings, a study has found.

Source: Science Sep. 8, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...e-vanished-internet-and-no-one-preserved-them

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

You're close. But since the journals are gone, it would be more accurate to say "formerly published by these journals."

 

[Tdol]

As they were open-access, without peer review, it is a stretch to imagine that all were publishing such useful data.

 

[GoodTaste]

Some of them could be valued - it is a reasonable evaluation.

 

[tedmc]

Some of them could be valued - it is a reasonable evaluation.

Do you mean valuable and deduction?

 

[GoodTaste]

No. "Valued" here means "considered as important and worth having."

 

[Tarheel]

No. "Valued" here means "considered as important and worth having."

That confirms my opinion that valued is a subjective term (compared to valuable.)

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

No. "Valued" here means "considered as important and worth having."

You meant valuable. If it's worth something, it's valuable. Your point isn't whether anyone values it. Your point is that it has value, regardless of what others might think.