Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11...
by j7ake on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:04AM
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The prestige provides access to jobs/promotions, invitations to talks, and higher scores on grants. The tangible benefits are more than $10k.
Not saying this is right, but nothing will change until scientists stop ranking other scientists by the number of publications in prestigious journals/conferences.
Re:Nature Neuroscience offers open access publishing for $11...
by oefrha on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:46AM
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Other than inertia and prisoner’s dilemma, there’s zero reason a cheap journal can’t be equally prestigious. The bloodsucking big academic publishers contribute approximately zero to science for what they charge compared to a Gowers-style journal run by the same editors and reviewers.
His journals can manage at a whopping $10 per submission, and that's with a SaaS platform in the middle. Throw in a few bucks for arXiv hosting costs too if you will.
So what the hell do these protection racket journals provide at >$10k per submission? And do realize they sell subscriptions to institutions — I highly doubt institutions get better deals when some authors pay for open access — and physical copies on top of that, so it's not like they actually get nothing for these open access articles.