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This is just shifting the cost from the readers to the writers. It doesn't make it any better as the prices are completely out of touch with reality. Note that
by bubblethink 1y ago
This is just shifting the cost from the readers to the writers. It doesn't make it any better as the prices are completely out of touch with reality. Note that this is not the cost for registering at a conference; that is separate. This is just the publishing fee for each paper.
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- atrus 1y agoIt's not really shifting the cost from readers to writers, since these fee existed beforehand though. They just went from double-dipping to single dipping.
- bubblethink 1y agoThe open access pricing is different and higher than the old closed access pricing. That is the switch in all open access publishing. In any case, both the old prices and new ones are absurdly high.
- aoki 1y agoThe pricing is not about the cost of storing and serving the articles. It is partly direct revenue replacement and partly “stick” to get institutions to subscribe to APC allowance buckets.
- clueless 1y agoin an open access world, who should be paying the people who are reviewing the papers (which cost time/money)?
- bubblethink 1y agoReviewers aren't paid. This is just money for ACM, the non profit.
- clueless 1y agoah in that case, this is long over due.