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> There is no standard model to fund the resource intensive process of peer review in the open access journals I have been a peer reviewer over the last 5 year
by denzil_correa 9y ago
> There is no standard model to fund the resource intensive process of peer review in the open access journals
I have been a peer reviewer over the last 5 years or so for multiple journals and conferences in Computer Science like Elsevier, IEEE etc. Not once have I receive any remuneration for my comments in the article. Most of us do this as voluntary community service.
- achileas 9y agoYet the publishers get paid exorbitant fees for access to work they didn't pay for.
- FabHK 9y agoWould you consider not reviewing for Elsevier anymore, given their practices?
- mercer 9y agoYeah, while it's easy to criticise, based on Elsevier's reputation, reviewing for them strikes me as somewhat unethical by most standards. EDIT: by most standards that at least don't involve some situation of comfort. If you're comfortable in academia, you're probably enabling some unethical shit, is what I've come to believe. It's up to you to decide if you can live with the degree of it.
- anjc 9y agoYou're the resource :) The alternative to you doing it for free would be paying someone. Having said that, I presume that you're doing it because you work in a certain role, and because it's advantageous to your career. I.e. you're getting paid by someone, and it's assumed that you'll review as part of your job.
- vkou 9y agoI'd imagine that for every Elsevier-published paper that you review, that is a non-Elsevier-published paper that you did not get a chance to review. Would it be possible for you to prioritize review of open-access work? (This is a question, not a criticism!)