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Extreme hyperbole like this rarely helps your case. Please try to elevate your discussion. Elsevier is a significant drain on public benefit relative to free/op
by creddit 8y ago
Extreme hyperbole like this rarely helps your case. Please try to elevate your discussion. Elsevier is a significant drain on public benefit relative to free/open journals but that doesn't make them criminal.
- belorn 8y agoResearch that is funded by the public for the public is being put in the hand of for-profit organizations like Elsevier and then held private unless someone pays. Its not criminal but it is also more than just a drain on public benefit relative to free/open journals. Its like if we paid taxes to build and maintain roads and bridges, only to have the constructor give the rights of the finished result to a toll-both company in order so they could evaluate and rate how good the individual construction workers are and make it easier to promote and hire them in the future. It make no sense for any practical profession to behave like this, and yet thats how academia has operated for ages. It is time that the public get what it paid for.