Re:Royal Astronomical Society: all journals to publish as op...
by throwawaaarrgh on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:46PM
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So tell your representatives in government to stop putting government funded research into journals. (They won't stop, and the reason why is the same reason why journals have those big profits)
Re:Royal Astronomical Society: all journals to publish as op...
by chimprich on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:16AM
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> They won't stop
They are already stopping: https://www.ukri.org/publications/ukri-open-access-policy
> the reason why is the same reason
And which reason is that?
It's not "free". We've already paid for the content in the journals through taxes. Most research is funded by government grants, carried out by scientists paid with public money.
The writing and the reviewing and most of the formatting is also done by scientists. The value that a journal provides on top of that is minimal. It's rent-seeking behaviour on content where the actual value has already been paid for.