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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It's just another version of "we'll collapse if we have to pay our workers a fair wage" These are billion-dollar companies. Why should we all pay to keep them afloat?
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This, from Tim Vines, I think gets to the heart of the issue Currently, this cost is paid by academics who receive little/nothing of value in return Why in the world is that acceptable?pic.twitter.com/irdFDgycUd
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I completely reject the premise put forward by publishers that the current system is free. It is obviously not, it is merely that the $1,000s cost is shifted from publishers to scientists
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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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Replying to @GidMK
Ha! Like: Would you like to be paid for the hard work you choose to do on top of everything?
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