"Imagine being an expert in your field, and working for months – maybe years – on a cutting-edge research project. And then imagine sending that research to a publisher who pays you nothing for your work. Instead, they charge you an enormous fee for the privilege of having it appear in their journal ... Unfortunately, that’s the entire business model of academic publishing."
Dr #KristenScicluna, 2024
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-academic-publishing-rort/
#AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #PeerReviewedJournals #research
"In many countries around the world ... funding bodies require the research they fund to be published with 'open access', meaning that it is not put behind a paywall. ...publishers ... take advantage of academics and institutions by charging them an open access publication fee, called an 'article processing charge' (APC). In the science journal Nature, the APC is currently around AU$19,000 – that’s for one single article."
Dr #KristenScicluna, 2024
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-academic-publishing-rort/
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