#Science publishing: global revenue £19bn, somewhere between recording & film industries "but far more profitable"https://twitter.com/MJIBrown/status/879686574090338304 …
“Bizarre triple-pay system...as if New Yorker or the Economist demanded that journalists write and edit for free, & asked Gov to foot bill"
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"...Few people in the last century have done more to shape the way science is conducted today than Robert Maxwell."pic.twitter.com/z9ReTCvg1I
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Thank sexist fraudsters Watson and Crick for inspiring Maxwell to exploit impact factor. "I think we launched a hundred journals that year."
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"Publishers are now wound so tightly around the various organs of the scientific body that no single effort has been able to dislodge them."
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"Rewards of enormously complex system that has to accommodate utopian ideals of science with commercial goals of publishers that dominate"
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"We scientists have not given a lot of thought to the water we’re swimming in." - Dr Neal Young, NIH
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@mbeisen Old quote of you cited in this excellent piece on rise of for-profit science publishing.
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Sci publishing "kingmaker": "If you control access to scientific literature, it is, to all intents and purposes, like controlling science."
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