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Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
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Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
@mangeurdenuage @kaia @mametsuko Finally! I hate those guys. They should really not exist.
re: Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
@mandlebro @mangeurdenuage @kaia @mametsuko Didn’t even have to check the message you were replying to, Elsevier is absolutely notorious about their financial practices.
Although you might want to check on the “impact” of it generally or this journal. There’s roughly two kinds of science, high impact for the big things others are going to build upon, and low impact that probably no one ever will but that fills an outside quota of papers for whatever.
re: Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
@ThatWouldBeTelling @kaia @mametsuko @mangeurdenuage "low impact" papers can still be important, especially to researchers. It is especially offensive to be looking up something that was published in a journal 50 years ago that has single-digit citations and to hit a $15 paywall. Yes, sci-hub exists, but it really shouldn't be the critical research tool that it is. Elsiver isn't the only culprit as well. The whole journal system should burn. Publicly funded research should be publically accessible.
