Show threadStrypeyFeb 7

"Encouraging the rapid publication of research results through preprint servers."

#KristenScicluna, 2024

Maybe the solution is for preprint servers to have their own volunteer-driven peer review processes? They need to be co-designed with academics and meet their approval before being put in place. But I'm imagining something like ...

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Show threadStrypeyFeb 7

"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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#OpenAccess

The academic publishing rort

As much as $1 billion in taxpayer funding may be being funnelled into the pockets of for-profit academic publishers every year, writes Dr Kristen Scicluna.

The Australia Institute
StrypeyFeb 7

"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

The academic publishing rort

As much as $1 billion in taxpayer funding may be being funnelled into the pockets of for-profit academic publishers every year, writes Dr Kristen Scicluna.

The Australia Institute