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It's easy to be outraged by this, but the bottom line is that journals need to make money to sustain their own operations. Research might be tax-funded, but the
by grrmx1 9y ago
It's easy to be outraged by this, but the bottom line is that journals need to make money to sustain their own operations. Research might be tax-funded, but the publishing houses are privately-held entities with employees and payroll (per their wiki page, for example, Nature employs 800 people).
Someone has to pay for expenses associated with maintaining these platforms. Right now its either the tax payers or college students who pay for it indirectly, when their institution buys library access.
- fallatio 9y agoThis doesn't make logical sense. We don't care about their problems, their employees should go find another job which isn't so predatory and leaching off public programs and funding. Nobody has to pay, a better alternative is for these publishers to cease to exist.
- Vinnl 9y agoYes, but there are strong reasons to believe that the amount of money they are currently charging is in no way proportionate to the amount they need to sustain (+reasonable profits): https://medium.com/flockademic/the-future-of-open-access-should-not-be-left-to-the-legacy-publishers-634c188d28b9 https://medium.com/flockademic/the-future-of-open-access-sho...