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Academics do get paid, and reviews are usually considered part of their work duties. Publishers have simply managed to externalize the cost of reviews (and aut
by lultimouomo 10y ago
Academics do get paid, and reviews are usually considered part of their work duties.
Publishers have simply managed to externalize the cost of reviews (and authorship) to universities, i.e. to students in the case of private university, and to students and states in the case of public ones.
- tdb7893 10y agoComing from working in business it seems kinda weird that they have outsourced not only creating the content but also reviewing the content for free. I wonder why the journals are so expensive when they seem to get a large part of the work for free.
- inimino 10y agoBecause they are entrenched, they publish all the "prestigious" journals, and academics haven't collectively walked away yet.