£800k won't cover .5 papers/academic in PLOS We create 10x that AND access 100k new non-self papers a yr…
How much (tax) money do UK universities donate to Elsevier? https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/time-for-elsexit/ … #openaccesspic.twitter.com/hQo7TO4Pzw
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Don't use pay2publish journals and use Scihub for access old stuff.
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If necessary, start some more new free journals. Edinburgh has a great pool of researchers, could easily do that. :)
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@clairlemon On the rapaciousness of scientific publishers, and my refusal to be their slave http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/on- … -
Good write-up.
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What determines the cost? Why are Imperial College and UCL getting such a bad deal?
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number of actual journals they have access may be in the price, archive access another one
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Right. I would have assumed everyone has access to pretty much everything. Seems I'm mistaken
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don't know the details but I saw differences between Dundee and imperial for journals from same editor
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It must be axiomatic in academia: "Pay publisher or perish".
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