• TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Best part is the reviewers don’t get paid for their work, the publishers pocket all of the money they get from selling journals

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      3 months ago

      While charging researchers to publish the paper and the reader for accessing it. If they can get away with it. It’s a fucking scam, thus arxiv and others exist.

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        3 months ago

        I’ve personally had much less respect for global academia ever since I learned how publishing journals can demand so much from researchers and their audience, while providing so little.