Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals
by anon4this1 on Sunday January 15, 2017 @07:49PM
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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.
Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals
by jcranmer on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:14AM
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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.
Re:Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals
by Chris2048 on Monday January 16, 2017 @10:56AM
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Do the original authors still own the copyrights?
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.