Real talk, what is the real barrier to somebody creating a competing publishing firm for these things.
I’m not a scientist, but I always hear about how expensive it is to either publish or get access to scientific papers without contacting the author directly. Why does that reputation exist? Why does it seem like the scientific community is so dependent on stuff like this?
Its mainly the prestige.
No one would care if you wrote some unknown tabloid on your resume.
I’m no expert on the topic, but Nature is an exception rather than the rule, given its history and prestige.
Academic journals were around well before the Internet. Real capital investment was required to review applications, provide editing advice, typesetting, printing, and distribution. All of those are still things, now with additional online publishing, which also has its own technology costs.
What’s wild and out of whack, of course, is that peer reviewers generally aren’t paid, submitters pay to get published, and readers also pay for access. Other than the relatively minimal office staff to keep things running, there’s very little overhead. So why is it so damn expensive?
I think the answer is that they can get away with it. You can publish in an open source journal for free, of course, but there may or may not be quality control. Plus, it’s an attention economy. If you publish in Science or Nature, you’re almost certainly getting prestige that can turbo boost your career because that many people will see and likely cite your work.
And on and on it goes. I think we would pretty strong regulations to stop this system.
You could buy 42300 loaves of bread with that money
And probably like several cartons of eggs!
63450 eggs!
Keep in mind that i am using romanian prices, the numbers may be much lower for other countries (for example, in the USA, you could probably only afford 3 eggs with that money)
19,802 eggs calculated using the price of a dozen eggs at my closest supermarket ($7.69).
You could perspnally deliver physical copies to universities across the country for that money.
I want to boycott for profit journals and only publish in non-profit ones.
What is MECFS? I assume I could look it up, but it seems likely you would welcome the chance to elucidate.
Don’t have the energy to explain right now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myalgic_encephalomyelitis%2Fchronic_fatigue_syndrome&wprov=rarw1
Well shit, I need to call my wife. The diagnostic criteria reads like an exact list of everything she has experienced in the past two years…
I see.
Thank you.
Why participate in the pursuit and sharing of knowledge when you can consoom™️
Ah yes, that pursuit and sharing of knowledge known as “paying a shitload of money for the privilege of making a company that ultimately provides nothing of value some extra cash”
I didn’t know ml is cool with ultracapitalism as long as it’s under the veneer of knawlege.
That’s not the argument the user is making, though. Unless I misunderstood you (or the screenshot)
