Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals

Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals by davidmr on Sunday January 15, 2017 @01:31PM (#13405501)

I spent 15 years in academia and now work with dozens of former academics. In all my time, I don't think I've ever met a single person who didn't loathe the journal system from top to bottom, and that includes at least a couple journal editors.

I seethe in anger every time something I'm looking into ends in a IEEE or other journal who militantly police arXiv preprints.

The day we bury the last for-profit closed access journal will be a momentous day in the history of science.

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Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals by trendia on Sunday January 15, 2017 @02:26PM (#13405841)

Many people outside academia assume that researchers receive some sort of financial benefit when their paper is distributed, read, or bought for $35 on Elsevier.

But in fact, the publishing companies receive money from both the researcher and the reader. They charge the researcher up to $1,500 to publish the article, and then they extract money from the readers by charging a subscription fee to their institution (which constitute a large portion of the library budget).

Not even the editors or reviewers receive any financial compensation -- they often volunteer their time for the peer-review process.

The entire procedure and profit extraction is a disgrace.

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Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals by anon4this1 on Sunday January 15, 2017 @07:49PM (#13407503)

Elsevier look like a ripe target for a worldwide campaign to cancel access to their journals unless fees arnt dropped.

Germany are (have?) Pulled access, some other south american countries have also with local academics saying that everyone uses sci-hub for everything anyway.

Could be a good target for an activist hedge fund investor to short the stock and attack the company.

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Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals by jcranmer on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:14AM (#13408480)

Note that in general, you either need to pay to submit the article xor pay to read the article, almost never do you need to do both.

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Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals by Chris2048 on Monday January 16, 2017 @10:56AM (#13410637)

Do the original authors still own the copyrights?

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Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals by snthd on Sunday January 15, 2017 @05:46PM (#13406845)

Interesting. Maybe a court could find the contract between a researcher and the publisher to be unconscionable - and therefore non-binding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability

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Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals by sitkack on Sunday January 15, 2017 @05:58PM (#13406909)

Not to mention IEEE standards association running a really profitable toll booth for global technology standards. They should be funded by the UN and made completely open.

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