Mastodawn

Academic publishing, open access, and profit
Ah, the tricky dicky world of academic publishing, or how to milk governments of taxpayer dollars. Read on at https://www.samyoung.co.nz/2026/01/academic-publishing-open-access-and.html
#Academic_Publishing #Tax_Dollars #Rort

JHShieber May 7, 2023

Here's hoping this is a harbinger of greater changes in academic publishing:
"The entire academic board of the journal Neuroimage, including professors from Oxford University, King’s College London and Cardiff University resigned after Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees
#Academic_Publishing #Elsevier

‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees

Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon

The Guardian

Matthew McMullen Dec 25, 2022

I am another migrant from the bird app. I tried to setup an account on another server awhile ago, but for some reason it didn't work well.

I am a scholar of premodern Japanese Buddhism, in particular Shingon and Tendai esoteric Buddhism. My main job is editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies and am based at Nanzan University, where I am Associate Professor. Looking to follow discussions and news on #Japan, #Buddhism, #labor, #academic_publishing.

Vincent-Xavier Nov 26, 2018

Cassons Elsevier et les autres !

Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032052-900-time-to-break-academic-publishings-stranglehold-on-research/

#research #academic_publishing #funding

Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research

Science journals are laughing all the way to the bank, locking the results of publicly funded research behind exorbitant paywalls. A campaign to make content free must succeed

New Scientist