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Yeah. Understand that. But journals are not charity. Someone has to pay for publication and distribution. It is either readers, authors or funding providers. Or
by attractivechaos 10y ago
Yeah. Understand that. But journals are not charity. Someone has to pay for publication and distribution. It is either readers, authors or funding providers. Or you could get rid of the costly midman/publishers, but I am not sure an academic world with preprint servers only would be a better one.
- a_bonobo 10y agoSome countries/universities have reserved pots of money for OA fees, sadly it isn't common. I have myself published a few papers with PhD students that should have been OA but we used the PhD students' allocated funds to send that student to a relevant conference, that's a better prospect for their career.
- Fomite 10y agoYeah - this is mostly me grumbling in the direction of "Oh, I only publish in open access journals..." types who have tenure and funded R01s