Shit, some of them charge the authors to publish.
Most do now. Just spent 100 to submit to a highly reputable journal with good impact factor and now $700 for three color figures. It's a parasitic system. Massive pressure to be publishing all the time too, so you can't just say fuck em'.
Now we know where reddit took their profit strategy from
How can these businesses keep running? Storing and distributing documents isn't exactly the most technically challenging product to build. I'm not in the field though so I'm absolutely certain I'm missing a lot of the nuances here. Can you shed some light on why you think nobody new comes along to our compete these folks?
Reminder that you can actually request the paper directly from the authors thru email. Otherwise the solution will be sci-hub.
When I was working on my PhD. I stopped accessing papers from the publishers’ website. Each download incurs cost to the university. Instead I used sci-hub practically all the time. These publishers are the leeches.
til: downloading paper incurs cost to the contributors, this system is absolutely sickening.
sci-hub stopped updating in 2020
Academic publishing is a scam.
arxiv.org just works. Nobody needs Elsevier.
These publishers are like bridge trolls. They didn’t contribute anything to publishing papers or pay the authors or editors of the papers. Yet they expect people to pay toll to access the papers.
Capitalism in a nutshell
Is this their revenue on scientific journal bullshit, or total?
Because I'm pretty sure authors of their actual books get paid.
Books! 😂 I've written chapters and been chief editor for multiple books. The pay for these scientific rags is absolute dirt for authors. Tons of work and unless it's a major success, no one respects them as they aren't peer reviewed. We just can't say no. I've spent months writing chapters for absolutely nothing.
Define actual books?
Yep. Universities are in on it too. You can't work in academia without constantly publishing. These publishers don't pay you for your work. But publishing improves your "reputation" and "scholarly activity" which the university requires in order to boost its own "reputation". It's a big scam.
