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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • bazus1@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      isn’t “the truth hurts” one of the first things academics have to come to terms with?

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah, that’s “the microscope adds 700 pounds” 😛

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  • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Permanently unpaid intern for Elsevier

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      • datelmd5sum@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • midimalist@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If Elsevier is the cable TV in this metaphor, what is the closest equivalent to early-Netflix?

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      • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ArXiv?

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    Things are looking up!

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  • haerrii@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • micnd90@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m more of an EGU Copernicus guy

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  • gex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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