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from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 27 Aug 2024 10:58
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from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 27 Aug 2024 10:58
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I mean heās right, but to hear it put so frankly is still a slap in the face.
isnāt āthe truth hurtsā one of the first things academics have to come to terms with?
Nah, thatās āthe microscope adds 700 poundsā š
Elsevier is a company that unashamedly turns grants straight into profits.
if academic publishing doesnāt drastically change their bullshit busted ass business model, theyāre giong to go the way of cable tv and lose all their buyers to OER. and iām here for it. fuck elsevier and all the rest of them
If Elsevier and the other major academic publishers are the cables in this metaphor, what is the closest equivalent to early-Netflix?
ArXiv?
Iād say arXiv would be piracy in the analogy; free, convinient and supported by contributors. Early netflix would be like researchgate; for profit trash scam site.
Content creators on places like youtube earn between 55%-75% of the revenue. Academics get nothing from elsevier.
Permanently unpaid intern for Elsevier
You donāt have to pay to your employer as an unpaid intern.
Why be a Youtuber or a Tiktoker when you can be an Elsevierer
Iām more of an EGU Copernicus guy
Cory Doctorow wrote a great article about academic publishing a few days ago: pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#notā¦
Things are looking up!
Iām usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutionsā¦
ā¦but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldnāt exactly cry about it.
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