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Paying for journals to publish your papers is a thing academia did to itself. Publish or perish, demanding papers in a few cherry-picked journals to continue yo
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Paying for journals to publish your papers is a thing academia did to itself. Publish or perish, demanding papers in a few cherry-picked journals to continue your career, and basically funneling grant money into journals hands is something that can only be changed from within academia.
- tannhaeuser 5y agoSomewhat comparable to F/OSS, except without the grants.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoHow is that similar to foss?
- moffkalast 5y agoAh yes just like every open source project must pay a grand to github to host their code. /s What are you even talking about?
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI don't have to pay anything to publish code I wrote. Peer review only happens in Linux distributions.
- dmix 5y agoA lot of industries make sense in the context of their time, I'm sure having a few papers with esteem and influence as primary status indicators made a lot sense back in the day. There's just some things that are stuck in rigid unchanging organizations/industries. Anything heavily government reliant or bureaucratic, which universities are probably the best example of, is going to be extremely slow at adapting to the world. Just like how lawyers still use fax machines. It's extremely hard to be different and make change/stand-out in those organizations. Which also relates back to the articles point about cultural insularity.