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There can be some minuscule royalties, but by and large academic publishers are reviled for predatory practices. They get close to free content. They get free s
by crispinb 9y ago
There can be some minuscule royalties, but by and large academic publishers are reviled for predatory practices. They get close to free content. They get free services from peer reviewers (the essential basis of what they're selling). They charge vast sums to educational libraries for access. They charge ludicrous per-article fees for any member of the public who has the temerity to wish to read about any of the research their taxes fund.
Its in just about everyone's interests for for-profit academic publishers to collapse. If Sci-Hub can help bring this about, it will be a historic victory for the open internet.
- erikbye 9y agoSupposedly the Journal of Co-ordination Chemistry costs $11,367 per year, 24 issues [1]. [1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/why-are-journals-so-expensive/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/why... https://svpow.com/2012/01/13/the-obscene-profits-of-commercial-scholarly-publishers/ https://svpow.com/2012/01/13/the-obscene-profits-of-commerci...
- crispinb 9y agoHah - keeping some parasite's wine cellar very well-stocked no doubt. Not only does this rip off universities (which in most countries also means the taxpayer), it seriously limits access to information for citizens. Many more ordinary people access academic journal articles than I suspect research institutions fully realise. This is particularly true for legal and medical journals, access to which does have real (sometimes life-saving) effects.