The "unsustainable costs" bit here is hilarious. The current system of academic publishing relies entirely on free labour WHICH HAS A HUGE COST TO RESEARCHERS If journals can't afford to pay that, it says something about publishing as an industryhttps://twitter.com/JeffreyBrainard/status/1366416983131119622 …
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And this one is a crystal clear example of a non-representative survey. The users of Publons
in 2018 (early adopters)
who agreed to do the survey
say that recognition (the reason they are at the platform) is more important than getting paid
(that doesn't exist anyways)pic.twitter.com/5RSq5Fukpa
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Yeh that's pretty ridiculous. Wonder what the result would be if the question was asked differently
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It mystified me as a young academic in the 90s that all the work academics did for journals - writing, reviewing, etc - was unpaid, but journals were extremely expensive. Now everything is online, what exactly are the costs?
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I was perfectly ok with the idea of peer review as a public service you owed to the public good, in a kind of "open source" community vibe, but not really if eg Springer are making bank off it.
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