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Re:Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research by TheSmiddy on Sunday November 25, 2018 @07:34PM (#18530059)
They are paid, just not by the journal, they're paid a salary by their university and one of their responsibilities is peer reviewing papers.
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Re:Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research by Fomite on Monday November 26, 2018 @12:41AM (#18531359)
This. "Service to the university and field" is literally part of my contract.
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