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Better yet: knowledge that was paid for by tax payers should be available to tax payers. The journal business model is astounding: they charge a lot to publish
by olliej 4y ago
Better yet: knowledge that was paid for by tax payers should be available to tax payers.
The journal business model is astounding: they charge a lot to publish, a lot to read what they publish, they do not pay reviewers, editors, or authors, and then get to claim ownership of what was published.
It's not enough for legislation to be "you must have some bs pseudo-open-access document", it should be "no employee of a publicly funded institution shall undertake unpaid labour for a journal, the journal must pay a minimum of 50% of proceeds to the author/institution, etc".
- pca006132 4y agoI think the interesting thing is that, apart from those private companies, institutions such as IEEE and ISO also have rediculous paywall, even for standards that should be public... Perhaps the gov have less influence over private companies, but can't they do something with IEEE and ISO?
- olliej 4y agoIEEE publications only have something to publish and only have reviewers because public institutions are allowed to publish to them, and allow to do free labour (paper review is unpaid).
- habitue 4y agoRight? It is so mind blowing my one-sided. Like hilariously. Usually there is some mitigating factor or some nugget of value provided that someone can make some convoluted argument is worth the price. But with journals, there's nothing. It's 100% path dependence and coordination problems. No one would ever create this arrangement from scratch today.
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