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I can't believe that in 2024 we still have to explain so bluntly that "Academic journals are a lucrative scam". Yet here we are ...
Kudos to the Editorial Board of Philosophy & Public Affairs for resigning en masse and thank you to Arash Abizadeh for explaining why and what's next in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions
@fraufriedrich The other side of the academic scam is the river of fraud in author-pays open-access journals indexed by the National Library of Medicine. It has broken medical literature searching. A lot of ivermectin/COVID shit came out of that.
@jgordon Yes! Another good reason for going diamond OA aka scholar-led publishing. The editorial board members of all these shady journals should do some serious thinking.
@fraufriedrich Oh, their “editors” are all sleazy or fake. They don’t have to think about it, they already made their devil-deal.
I believe in open access / open science. I don’t get how these $for profit academic publishers get let off of the burden of the open data hosting — definitely we need that change in approach.
NASA and NOAA won’t pay (in general) the extra cost for open access, so work funded totally by the government can remain behind a paywall. OA comes by having ‘final submission’ format which is often inelegant in rendering in a non centralized place.
@fraufriedrich
The only problem when stuff like this happens is that the large citation trackers that are used for measuring output are also in the hands of the big five, so they might just decide to not count the new Diamond OA journal in the ranking and voila - status quo preserved.
While resignations help, we must change the evaluation metrics. If we do that well, the publishing industry could crumble overnight.
@MrHedmad yes, very true. It's all about research assessment metrics and frankly the "publish or perish" paradigm. This is what the #coara initiative is working on. Still a long way to go, so I don't know about "overnight" ... but it's a start.
https://coara.eu/
@fraufriedrich
Yeah. With "overnight" I meant that if tomorrow publications, citations and all of that did not matter anymore (substituted by *insert metrics here*), magically it doesn't make sense to publish in Nature anymore. Or anywhere else other than Diamond OA.