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Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi... by tialaramex on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:12AM (#29064149)
JMLR has a far higher impact factor than "Machine Learning".

The for-profit publishers are welcome to print whatever they want, forever. They even publish "hollow" journals that exist purely as spoilers. You're mistaken if you believe they "make their money either way" they need subscribers, and it's increasingly unattractive to subscribe to second rate journals like "Machine Learning".

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Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi... by pessimizer on Monday November 01, 2021 @11:01AM (#29067480)
IIRC, the way they defeat this is by offering discounts on subscriptions to large groups of journals, rather than to individual titles.

If you're going to have to buy the package anyway, any money that is spent on journals not in the package is an extra expense that will have to be individually justified.

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