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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait deadass?!?!? If so then 20 lol

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Best part is the reviewers don't get paid for their work, the publishers pocket all of the money they get from selling journals

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While charging researchers to publish the paper and the reader for accessing it. If they can get away with it. It's a fucking scam, thus arxiv and others exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I've personally had much less respect for global academia ever since I learned how publishing journals can demand so much from researchers and their audience, while providing so little.