Re:Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you...
by nonrandomstring on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:34AM
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Before MIT I was briefly set to sign a contract with Elsevier. So glad
I pulled out in time. Sorry to put it so bluntly, but they were pure
corporate poison.
I met another author some years later who published a technical book
with them. It went to press full of typesetting errors and
mistakes. He found evidence in files that the proofreading had been
outsourced to India. They wanted to charge him to fix the mess they'd
made.
When it comes to scientific research, Elsevier are trying to build a
monopoly. They convinced me of the necessity of SciHub. I always tell
students to have nothing to do with them.
I met another author some years later who published a technical book with them. It went to press full of typesetting errors and mistakes. He found evidence in files that the proofreading had been outsourced to India. They wanted to charge him to fix the mess they'd made.
When it comes to scientific research, Elsevier are trying to build a monopoly. They convinced me of the necessity of SciHub. I always tell students to have nothing to do with them.