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Now, instead of paying a subscription, they charge a one-time several thousand dollar fee to the researcher for open access. Problem solved! Everybody knows those fat cat grad students and post docs have plenty of money to throw away on oat milk lattes.
I don't think that is the case for ACM and Dagstuhl. ACM used to have this ACM open system where department pay a fixed amount subscription per year depends on the department size.
Now that all ACM paper is open access, I don't know if they are still doing that. Dagstulh never had these, as far as I know, hosting articles are extremely cheap.
These is certainly not the norm everywhere, but our field have already navigated out the swamp of free access, I hope more fields wil.
Ok? Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer all do this.
I am not disagreeing or attempting to downplay that academic publishing is still bad in many fields. But there are fields that are now out of the dumper fire, so I sm hopeful that other fields can learn from these and escape.
I also want to highlight the solution that worked is organization, public funding, and academic governance. So if you are unhappy about the situation in the field, maybe it is a good time to organize all your unhappy colleagues and build something new and better :)