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Should the journal expect free reviewing if the journal itself isn’t free? Social obligation ought to go both ways.
by Robotbeat 5y ago
Should the journal expect free reviewing if the journal itself isn’t free? Social obligation ought to go both ways.
- chrisseaton 5y agoYou get reviews for free, so you give reviews for free. It does go both ways.
- austinjp 5y agoNah. Reviews tend to cost thousands of $CURRENCY as part of the publishing costs, while reviewers give their personal time, thereby losing cash and/or time.
- Robotbeat 5y agoThe taxpayer pays for most of this stuff. They already paid for all of it by providing the salaries of the researchers and the reviewers. Now the rent-seeking publishers want to charge them all an additional toll.