All universities need to collaborate and be their own journals and cut the parasite out completely.
Journals provide neither the source material, not technical or administrative expertise, nor value for dollar.
Its a racket.
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025
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Eh, nonprofit professional societies are the more natural home for journals, and many already do have journals. They're less likely to be partial to a particular institution than if universities ran journals. Their revenue also goes back into the community via services for early career scientists and grants.
But nope – not even a mention of Diamond Open Access, not in the article and not from the interviewed people apparently.
"Mutual benefit" my a**e.
Academics are apparently just stupid.
finally!
as a researcher I hate these companies so much... if it weren't for sci-hub my work wouldn't happen
we researcher provide the work, and the peer-review, and the editing, everything for free, and then these sharks such as elsevier steal it all and put it behind a paywall
it's sickening
They don't just steal it: They make you pay to publish (varies by journal/tier).
They they SELL ACCESS TO THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE ARTICLES THE REASERCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY WROTE.
It makes me sick. It also makes me wonder how e.g. the EU hasn't gone in and made some system that can kill these sharks.
Can we just make knowledge free already
There’s plenty of money for everyone if we take it from those billionaire psychopaths
Fuck Elsevier!
The era that these companies evolved in has been left far behind. The best you can say about them is that they keep knowledge of modern research from spreading. They may be the last refuge of intellectual colonialism.