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Re:EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees by refurb on Saturday May 06, 2023 @10:31PM (#35847339)
This is a terrible take.

Journals without fees (or lower fees) are available. Why don’t researchers publish in those?

Presumably because the journals that charge high fees offer something the lower cost ones don’t.

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Re:EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees by Dylan16807 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:41PM (#35847713)
They have network effects.

Charging for network effects is rent seeking.

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Re:EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees by refurb on Sunday May 07, 2023 @12:53AM (#35848056)
Network effects are dominant due to reach. Open access journals have even more reach than the paywall journals.

So it's not that.

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