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Who is the target audience here? And who exactly is paying for this? Researchers who care about open access can and do already upload their work to arxiv and/
by sgillen 5y ago
Who is the target audience here? And who exactly is paying for this?
Researchers who care about open access can and do already upload their work to arxiv and/ or scihub in addition to publishing their work in formal venues.
- somenewaccount1 5y agoMaybe people whom want to have their papers referenced more often would pay expecting more exposure? Idk, just guessing.
- gumby 5y agoPoliticians who want to require open access journals for govt funded work? Researchers who need “gold plated name” journals for tenure? Just speculation.
- Fomite 5y ago"Politicians who want to require open access journals for govt funded work?" Not this one. The open access requirements tend to be a year's delay and then it's open access at no cost.
- jinto36 5y agoMost of this work is grant-funded, so the publication fees usually also come out of the grants. Primary investigators are not usually paying this out of pocket. It's entirely so that you can have an item in your publication list or CV that says "Nature Neuroscience" on it, in your fight for a tenure-track promotion, or to get the next grant, or to get a grant renewed, etc. Especially in life sciences, peer review is an essential component, and name recognition of the journal is unfortunately valuable- for Nature/Cell/Science due to the high bar they have for novelty, compared to other respectable but not-top-tier journals like PLoS.