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Gather together and begin publishing your own journals (even just in the form of a website)? If it's you who made the existing journals great, you probably can
by g-b-r 2y ago
Gather together and begin publishing your own journals (even just in the form of a website)?
If it's you who made the existing journals great, you probably can do it again?
- da_chicken 2y agoThat's just kicking the can down the road.
- g-b-r 2y agoIn what way? I meant freely accessible journals, of course (making journals, or "journals", of their own, would probably cost much less than the subscriptions they're currently paying)
- impendia 2y agoThis is a coordination problem. There are some efforts in this direction; for example, the researchers who led the Elsevier boycott http://thecostofknowledge.com/ http://thecostofknowledge.com/ started a free open-access journal https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/about https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/about in which I'm proud to have a paper accepted. But it's difficult to dislodge the existing system quickly, even if everyone involved wants to.
- g-b-r 2y agoThat's one good news! Yes, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were some kicbacks involved, at some universities