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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by denzil_correa on Monday April 02, 2018 @08:49AM (#16734041)
> There is no standard model to fund the resource intensive process of peer review in the open access journals

I have been a peer reviewer over the last 5 years or so for multiple journals and conferences in Computer Science like Elsevier, IEEE etc. Not once have I receive any remuneration for my comments in the article. Most of us do this as voluntary community service.

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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by achileas on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:01AM (#16734513)
Yet the publishers get paid exorbitant fees for access to work they didn't pay for.
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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by vkou on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:35PM (#16737697)
I'd imagine that for every Elsevier-published paper that you review, that is a non-Elsevier-published paper that you did not get a chance to review.

Would it be possible for you to prioritize review of open-access work? (This is a question, not a criticism!)

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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by FabHK on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:11AM (#16735144)
Would you consider not reviewing for Elsevier anymore, given their practices?
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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by mercer on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:16PM (#16736645)
Yeah, while it's easy to criticise, based on Elsevier's reputation, reviewing for them strikes me as somewhat unethical by most standards.

EDIT: by most standards that at least don't involve some situation of comfort. If you're comfortable in academia, you're probably enabling some unethical shit, is what I've come to believe. It's up to you to decide if you can live with the degree of it.

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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by anjc on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:39PM (#16736182)
You're the resource :) The alternative to you doing it for free would be paying someone. Having said that, I presume that you're doing it because you work in a certain role, and because it's advantageous to your career. I.e. you're getting paid by someone, and it's assumed that you'll review as part of your job.
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