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We also need a journal to publish methods that failed. I did so much work during my PhD that was dead end and is not documented.
by whatever1 6y ago
We also need a journal to publish methods that failed. I did so much work during my PhD that was dead end and is not documented.
- xncl 6y agoChemistry is so bad for this. That and how everything is behind a paywall that only multinationals and universities have access too.
- auraham 6y agoI support this. Although a journal may not accept that kind of work, you can still publish it in your blog.
- hprotagonist 6y agothere was a journal of negative results in biomedicine, but i don't think they've published since 2017.
- DonCopal 6y agohttps://www.journalnetwork.org/journals/international-journal-of-negative-and-null-results https://www.journalnetwork.org/journals/international-journa...
- MattGaiser 6y agoIs it normal for journals to charge a fee for publishing?
- kraetzin 6y agoThis is normal practice. To publish in a respectable journal you are charged £1000+. To publish your paper as open access, you can be charged another ~£1000 for the privledge (IEEE).
- whatever1 6y agoAnd the reviewers will get exactly zero out of this
- Cacti 6y agoDepends on the field. For example, practically all of machine learning and related fields are $0 to publish and are open access by default. It’s been a huge boon for everyone except I guess traditional publishers.
- AdmiralGinge 6y ago>It’s been a huge boon for everyone except I guess traditional publishers. My heart bleeds for them!
- jiggunjer 6y agoI think it's laughable they still charge extra for color pictures.
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- akjssdk 6y agoThey charge extra to have your pictures printed in color, online everything is in color anyway. I think that is a fair practice no?
- jiggunjer 6y agoNo. If you want to submit color regardless of medium. Besides, color printing isn't that costly compared to their high margins. It's in their favor too if people use color images, the age of simple scatterplots has passed for most fields.
- Beldin 6y agoNever encountered paying for non-open access publication. I have only encountered "article processing fees" in relation to open access publishing. If you're okay with having your paper paywalled, you do not need to pay for journal publication. So I'm curious in which domain/subdomain you have encountered this.
- timClicks 6y agoYes. Academic publishing is a bizarre market. Editors and referees volunteer their time. Authors pay to publish. Libraries pay for subscriptions so that researchers can read. Publishers handle distribution, but in a digital-first era that's mostly pure profit.
- unishark 6y agoIt's only normal for open access journals to charge (or making a paper in a traditional journal open-acess), as the journals cannot sell access to the article. And the fees are usually a few thousand. Of course it's also most common for "predatory" journals to be open access and charge thousands.
- jwilk 6y ago"Start Year: 2014" "This is a new journal. No publications have been accepted yet." Looks dead to me.
- inopinatus 6y agoIn the commercial software world you just open-source the code and hope your competitors adopt it.