science

25858 readers

791 users here now

A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.

dart board;; science bs

rule #1: be kind

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

m3t00@lemmy.world

laverabe@lemmy.world

DeadPand@midwest.social

Joleee@lemmy.world

laverabe@lemmy.zip

309

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do - Get rid of for-profit scientific publishers. (open.substack.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/science@lemmy.world

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Of all the crazy parts of our crazy system, the craziest part is where taxpayers pay for the research, then pay private companies to publish it, and then pay again so scientists can read it. We may not agree on much, but we can all agree on this: it is time, finally and forever, to get rid of for-profit scientific publishers.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

There are some university presses that have started their own journals in response to these issues. It's a broken system, but no one is stopping anyone from creating new journals. All it takes is to eat away at the margins of for-profit journals by publishing fewer papers in them for them to eventually lose interest in the sector.