Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi...
by krull10 on Monday November 01, 2021 @08:06AM
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This indeed! In the US the fed government wastes massive amounts of grant money covering excessive publishing and open access fees. This could easily be restricted to a small max per article that must be accepted by any journal grant funded results will be published in. The journals would adapt.
Funding agencies (which are generally controlled by government, not academia) could easily set the standard to be e.g. no subscription and $500 publishing fee (feel free to replace $500 with a reasonable amount, I think $500 is excessive, but it's much lower than current rates), as shown by the slow switch to Open Access, which has been driven by them.