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Open access is its own ridiculous racket. It usually costs the author literally thousands to publish as open access.
by goosedragons 2y ago
Open access is its own ridiculous racket. It usually costs the author literally thousands to publish as open access.
- red_admiral 2y agoIf you're funded by a Horizon/EU grant, you can cost the article publication charges into your grant application in most cases. It ends up being the funder, not the author, who pays. That also means that if the whole racket is revisited at some point, then Elsevier will get to pick on someone their own size if not bigger - and will hopefully come off worse in that fight.
- goosedragons 2y agoIs that the best use of grant funds though really? Yes, it's not the author directly out of pocket but that money could be used towards new equipment, boosting grad student/post-doc pay, etc.
- red_admiral 2y agoIt's not. But it's on the EU government, or possibly the Horizon scheme managers, to fix it.
- DoctorOetker 2y agoOne can publish on Zenodo, universities and authors can band together and split the difference: divide the cost of hosting and / or optionally paid peer review.
- Hitton 2y ago>paid peer review What? Elsevier doesn't pay reviewers either.
- DoctorOetker 2y agoI know, what I'm saying is if universities band together, they can arrange for reviewers to be paid, so that authors at all universities start a discussion when they are assigned to review for Elsevier... for free.