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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.

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I think this is already done in most part of computer science. In my field, Springer has very little shares left, and is actively being replaced by ACM and Schloss Dagstuhl, which are not only both non-profit but all open access.

[–] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 hours ago

The Peer Community Journal tries to resolve this.

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 hours ago

Get rid of for profit everything

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 7 points 5 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.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago

In general knowledge is a one thing that multiplies when shared.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

True Science IS Journalism: true Journalism IS Science.

This principle is true in BOTH domains.

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[–] polotype@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

Hey, just curious, what's the _/_ for ?