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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

See the hottest papers this month with our pay per view plans, exclusively on OnlyScience by Elsevier!

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I'm usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutions...

...but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldn't exactly cry about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Cory Doctorow wrote a great article about academic publishing a few days ago: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier

Things are looking up!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm more of an EGU Copernicus guy

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Why be a Youtuber or a Tiktoker when you can be an Elsevierer

[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Content creators on places like youtube earn between 55%-75% of the revenue. Academics get nothing from elsevier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Permanently unpaid intern for Elsevier

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You don't have to pay to your employer as an unpaid intern.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if academic publishing doesn't drastically change their bullshit busted ass business model, they're giong to go the way of cable tv and lose all their buyers to OER. and i'm here for it. fuck elsevier and all the rest of them

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If Elsevier and the other major academic publishers are the cables in this metaphor, what is the closest equivalent to early-Netflix?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ArXiv?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'd 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

Elsevier is a company that unashamedly turns grants straight into profits.

[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean he's right, but to hear it put so frankly is still a slap in the face.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

isn't "the truth hurts" one of the first things academics have to come to terms with?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Nah, that's "the microscope adds 700 pounds" ๐Ÿ˜›