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Yes sure, but they also command an enormous premium for doing so; perhaps I'm too naive, but I would hope that in a "rational market" this wouldn't be possible.
by p0llard 6y ago
Yes sure, but they also command an enormous premium for doing so; perhaps I'm too naive, but I would hope that in a "rational market" this wouldn't be possible. I would expect universities to be running their own publishing entirely to avoid paying for Elsevier's CEO's lifestyle.
- lazyjeff 6y agoSome fields already do have their own publishing orgs, like ACM and IEEE. I don't think I've published anything of note in one of the standard publishers in a while. The field-specific organizations seem to be notably better, but are more limited in scope: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/academic/dl-pricing https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/academic/dl-p... Part of it is that I imagine a lot of this work is typical administrative office work, and not many people are excited to do it. You're probably not disrupting anything, things will be more complex than you expect (as is anything that operates and charges people internationally), and you won't be seen as a hero (probably more like the opposite).
- p0llard 6y agoYep, I'm a computer scientist and the I'd say probably the majority of the papers I read are from ACM conference proceedings, weirdly the journal/conference prestige split seems to be reversed in CS compared to other disciplines. Outside CS however it does seem that traditional journals (published by Elsevier, Springer, etc.) are still very much de rigueur.