• Beryl@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Not only do you write the article for free, they will also charge you for the privilege of publishing in their journal.

    • bananabenana@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Depends on the publishing method you choose. If you want free for readers, authors pay. If you want free publishing, readers pay. Reviewers never get paid. Editors get paid shit. Journals profit massively for doing barely anything. Terrible in all directions. Preprint servers are the future

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Was the article really written for free or was it written with tax-payer funded government grants?

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        6 months ago

        For the publisher it was written for free, yes. And the amount of founding increases with their fee.

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        6 months ago

        I mean, ok, then, I, a taxpayer, want free access to the document I paid for.

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        6 months ago

        Oh it was funded with tax/university money so that means a 3rd party private company, which had nothing to do at all with the funding/research, gets to profit from it gottcha.

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      6 months ago

      They even have the “whale” concept where they charge more for graphs and pictures and even more for *gasp* colored versions of same.