Comment on Publishing Revenue
howrar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Academic Authors: $0
FAKE NEWS
This should be in the negatives. We have to pay to get papers published in these traditional journals.
Comment on Publishing Revenue
howrar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Academic Authors: $0
FAKE NEWS
This should be in the negatives. We have to pay to get papers published in these traditional journals.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And sometimes open access costs money for the author too.
xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget the university libraries. Yup, researchers are paid by the university, those researchers pay the publishers to place their articles, the peer reviewers are also paid by the university. And then the university has to shell out money to the publishers, so the articles can be accessed.
Zacryon@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Not necessarily. A lot are paid by external research grants.
xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I must admit what I wrote was simplified.
If you take into account that a lot of research grants are financed by tax money though…