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I mean he’s right, but to hear it put so frankly is still a slap in the face.
isn’t “the truth hurts” one of the first things academics have to come to terms with?
Nah, that’s “the microscope adds 700 pounds” 😛
Elsevier is a company that unashamedly turns grants straight into profits.
if academic publishing doesn’t drastically change their bullshit busted ass business model, they’re giong to go the way of cable tv and lose all their buyers to OER. and i’m here for it. fuck elsevier and all the rest of them
If Elsevier and the other major academic publishers are the cables in this metaphor, what is the closest equivalent to early-Netflix?
ArXiv?
I’d say arXiv would be piracy in the analogy; free, convinient and supported by contributors. Early netflix would be like researchgate; for profit trash scam site.
I’m usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutions…
…but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldn’t exactly cry about it.
Cory Doctorow wrote a great article about academic publishing a few days ago: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier
Things are looking up!
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Why be a Youtuber or a Tiktoker when you can be an Elsevierer
I’m more of an EGU Copernicus guy
