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Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by mxcrossb on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @05:00AM (#20633015)
While we’re doing “as well as”s about Elsevier...

I hate how soulless the journals feel. Recently, I wanted to read a quite old paper as it connected to my recent research. It was published in the 60s, in a journal that has housed some extremely ground breaking work in my field. But you wouldn’t get that impression from their elsevier site. Where is the history? Where is the pride? Instead it looks just like any old rubbish journal, and any reader who stumbled upon it would think the same unless they read its history in Wikipedia.

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Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by impendia on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:45AM (#20633493)
> I hate how soulless the journals feel.

I certainly sympathize with you!

That said, personally I'm happy about this development. Journals don't really fill a practical need anymore, and (as you point out) they increasingly don't fill an emotional, intangible one either. Perhaps then we will muster the effort to kick the entire industry to the curb.

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Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by dmitriz on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:36PM (#20641048)
Of course they won't do it as that would show the world the other 99% of their journals are in fact old rubbish. And they don't buy us drinks as we know...

https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/104

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Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by dr_dshiv on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:55AM (#20633846)
Which journal?
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Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by dmitriz on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:33PM (#20641309)
All of them use the same process.
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Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by dr_dshiv on Friday August 09, 2019 @05:08AM (#20652545)
I was asking about:

> Recently, I wanted to read a quite old paper as it connected to my recent research. It was published in the 60s, in a journal that has housed some extremely ground breaking work in my field. But you wouldn’t get that impression from their elsevier site

The OP is describing how all journals are treated the same, despite the the fact that they are essentially mini societies, some with more important histories than others

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