The research is done, and it will stay available in any case, at the very least on the preprint server. What is the rationale to support the publication in an Elsevier journal? Is it to maintain the stamp of approval and maintain the perceived authority of an accepted paper?
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I am donating, and they are young scholars working in a system that is structured where this "support" is the only way to make it. As long as the system rewards this sort of research, this is the tango we have to dance.
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Thanks. I can see that that may be the case, but I am not seeing a straightforward argument made in the support page. What a supporter sees is just the point about availability to all, I think.https://twitter.com/Marco_Piani/status/1361112470602080264?s=20 …
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One issue is that Elsevier is seen as a bad publisher by many, exactly because of its business model, and it is hard not to think that this is also a donation to them.
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This is something I struggle with, and the ultimate answer I feel is that working within a broken system is impossible to do well. There are some few publishers who aren't bad in this manner, but most are and IJID is actually one of the cheaper options for international OA papers
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Thanks. I am aware it is not easy, & as mentioned I have greatly appreciated your work & activities during the pandemic. BTW, Some in the quantum community followed some earlier examples in the mathematical field, and created a peer-reviewed overlay journal:
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Not that I am suggesting something similar now or in the near future, but I was happy that we could do something to improve the system. It is open access and fully peer-reviewed, and recently it has been assigned a large impact factor (fir our field). Publishing there...
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... costs a small fraction of other journals, and I believe the fees may even be waived upon request. Maybe working towards something similar in your files is something to consider in the future, but I know it is not easy to find the time and the energy to do, or that...
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... success is guaranteed. Keep up the good work. Thanks again for it.
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It would be interesting to write papers, post preprints, submit to Elsevier journals, get them accepted, and then withdraw them before paying APCs, and put "accepted by journal of xx, not published" on your cv. Not perfectly ethical ...
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If only we were as unethical as the journals 
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