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NICE Elsevier is really, really bad. At this point, I think they are already seeing the end and investors are trying to squeeze every last bit out of the publi
by zwaps 8y ago
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Elsevier is really, really bad. At this point, I think they are already seeing the end and investors are trying to squeeze every last bit out of the publishing system before it finally collapses.
Case in point: The extremely consumer (paying!) hostile actions they took after buying Mendeley.
- Theodores 8y ago> before it finally collapses. Nope, you are forgetting about China. China is where it is happening for Western scientific publishing enterprises. To get published in a Chinese journal is one thing, to get your paper published for the global audience is true icing on the cake. Elsevier and Springer can look at this little problem with UC and think 'meh!' - the travel to China and the conference scene there is much more fun anyway.
- Vinnl 8y agoThat's why it was extra surprising that large Chinese funders have publicly declared support for Plan S, the coalition of funders forbidding researchers they fund from publishing in journals that do not go fully open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07659-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07659-5