Elsevier pockets all the profits but “publishers don’t pay authors for papers or peer reviewers for their reviews. The research undergirding the published papers often is wholly or partially funded via public grants—that is, by taxpayers, who must pay again to read the results.”https://twitter.com/erinroseglass/status/1071116288649359360 …
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To clarify, I don’t mean repeat the Netherlands deal. I mean all the universities get together and refuse this hefty profit extraction on the back free academic labor.https://twitter.com/lisalibrarian/status/1071803045607026688 …
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good q b.
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A problem is that researchers trying to achieve tenure face a high risk situation. They need to publish in “top journals” and if they say “I won’t publish in x y z journal;” they may end up publishing in what is an “inferior” outlet. Tenure standards are hard to coordinate.
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Nothing wrong to pay for quality journals, but why wasting millions on the other 90%?https://twitter.com/Dmitri145/status/1071283991385272322?s=19 …
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