Good for the University of California for canceling its subscriptions to Elsevier. Science doesn’t need for-profit journals.
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The issue: the people effectively making purchasing decisions (faculty) were price-sensitive... but to the wrong price! This is a problem with having money come out of the wrong budget (libraries, rather than the faculty who influence library decisions).
There's a nice paper to be written on all the separate structural issues which prevent this market from being competitive and encouraging innovation, IMO. Banning for-profits will likely make it worse (also IMO). Anyways, rant over!
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There’s no reason to ban for-profits. But I foresee a future publication system where everyone submits to relatively open preprint servers, and non-profit open-access “journals” live on top of them and provide peer review. Innovation should be easy in such a world.
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The arXiv has barely changed in 20+ years. We still write pdf documents - not even JavaScript+HTML, much less anything more interesting. I think of things like
@distillpub & Jupyter as very conservative... and yet they are decades ahead of arXiv. - 11 more replies
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We could try to abolish the State certification requirement for colleges
@ThaddeusRussell Seems difficult, though.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’m very interested in this topic. I have some thoughts that I want to test out.
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