Re:Dutch publishing giant Elsevier cuts off researchers in G...
by Arnt on Saturday July 21, 2018 @05:19AM
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I live in one of those countries and read the long-words newspapers every day. As far as I can tell there's not even any such proposal going here.
I personally don't see it as worthwhile anyway... people are putting their papers on the university web site and on arxiv anyway, why require more? You could propose that people have to publish on some other web site. Shortly later someone founds learned journals with names like "Journal of Acquired Senescence" and starts billing the German and Swedish taxpayer for the service of publishing the PDFs that are already on the university web site and in citeseerx. What's the point for the taxpayer?
Remember that you have to pay money to submit a paper to nature, they don't pay the peer reviewers, they charge for access to the journals, and they have ads.
Whenever Elsevier say that they add value it is imperative that you recognise that they do not pay for /anything/ that they publish, and in fact get paid by submissions (literally you pay to submit, not to publish), and you agree not to publish it anywhere else, or even just post it on your own website.