Re:Is the business of scientific publishing bad for science?
by lordnacho on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:28AM
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1. They can make it look however you like. They don't because they're not allowed into that particular market.
2. They're all over those sites. And the journal takes a lot, apparently.
3. A few tens of dollars? How many papers does an academic do in a year? They really can't afford a few hundred bucks?
I think if the publishers weren't in their near-monopoly position, money could be found for this. Heck, someone will probably write an AI that does the formatting in the right style soon.
1. They don't have a standard journal style. I want my Lancet paper to look like a Lancet paper, not just "be fine".
2. I'd have to find them. The journals do it for me automatically on submission.
3. For a lab just starting out, there is no such thing as "very little money".