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In grad school I remember being encouraged to submit a paper to a journal that would have charged me a few hundred dollars to put it in for peer review, and I told my advisor no, I needed to buy groceries, I would not throw my money away for an extra line on my CV. He got all flustered and it was a great example of why higher education is so fucked. My advisor, who ostensibly understood my background and means, could not understand how such a relatively small fee would be so prohibitive. He was incapable of understanding that I was essentially unemployed while enrolled as his grad student, and every dollar of funding went to bare essentials so I could continue breathing. He had access to discretionary funds for this exact kind of issue (I found out later), and didn’t think to offer.

Without independent wealth and deep personal connections it’s incredibly difficult to succeed in academia, regardless of the quality of your research.

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chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I got lucky in that my publication was through a journal that doesn’t charge money for access or submissions. It’s part of our professional organization and our annual membership fees cover the journal’s expenses.

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oppy1984@lemdro.id ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Really needs to be a wikipedia style service for academic papers.

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- Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  arxiv.org
  
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- JohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  plos.org
  
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Without independent wealth and deep personal connections it’s incredibly difficult to succeed in academia, regardless of the quality of your research.

Always has been, why do you think he’s called SIR Isaac Newton?

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- baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Neils Bohr, from a Jewish/Danish banking family.
  
  James Clark Maxwell inherited land and wealth in Scotland.
  
  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz… look at the size of the wig on the man!
  
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  - Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Neils Bohr, from a Jewish/Danish banking family.
    
    come on man, don’t start with something distasteful even if it’s true.
    
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    TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Judaism is distasteful?
    
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- yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Also, Newton was not born with the connection, he made them in Grantham. He had a very strained relationship with his mother and step father and was raised by his grandmother.
  
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  - Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I was talking about his uncle that gave him an in for University
    
    His uncle the Reverend William Ayscough, who had studied at Cambridge, recommended him to the university.
    
    But I just read that shit off wikipedia so, I’m no scholar. 🤷
    
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FishFace@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
In grad school your institution should be paying for fees like that. If the school itself isn’t paying, then doesn’t the supervisor have a grant they can file it under?

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radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What field were you in? Journal fees should either have been paid by your advisor’s funding or they should be the one paying.

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- BertramDitore@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Archaeology. But it was in the UK and I’m American so everything was a bit tougher than it should have been. My advisor for sure should have paid, and could have, but he was an asshole who didn’t bother to understand my situation.
  
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