The university should be the place demonstrating socioecological change, serving as a site of experimentation and praxis (see Dunlap et al., 2023). This, however, could not be further from the truth. Beside advancing technologies of digital, political and military control (Chatterjee & Maira, 2014), not to mention genetic dissection and animal vivisection—or some degree of this (Pellow, 2014)—universities fail to enact real examples of socioecological of renewability and sustainability. How come universities are not overflowing with agroecology, permaculture and forest gardens on and inside universities? How come universities are not self-generating their own electricity needs through wind, solar and other lower-carbon infrastructures? We, unfortunately, are witnessing the opposite at university campuses around the world.
so back in the day we needed publishers for distribution. now with the Internet, distribution is easy. but prices only went up
associate editors and referees are unpaid volunteers. typesetting is also mainly done by the authors. but prices are high because the publisher wants to profit.
there are quite a few high quality journals that are fairly priced and published by non profit publishers. these are the only journals authors should publish in …
Haha, PeNAS
Buncha dix.
How I sleep after downloading my research papers illegally
is the meme that you’re sleeping well, you’re sleeping in prison or that you’re sleeping well in prison?
And sci-hub paused adding more papers 😞
What? When? Why? Fuck!
Given the times I’ve seen news articles and screenshots of poorly vetted published journals. Surely a free open source publisher managed by the academic community can’t be much worse? I also don’t know shit about the requirements to actually publish so this is probably a naive take
also a lot of research work in brazil disallows you to get a second job. you are forced to live with the little money they pay you.
its almost like they don’t want there to be research here.
Academic publishing seems like a problem that should be easy to solve. It’s a situation where greed is outright making the service worse for everyone, so it seems like a new journal that does things differently (e.g. by not charging researchers) could become wildly successful… So why doesn’t that happen? Are there barriers to creating new journals?
Libgen and Scihub exist for this exact reason. How is it we’ve arrived at a situation where capitalists are deciding how knowledge is propagated?
sighs from Eastern Europe
You’d think that they’re using the money for prizes for reviewers or as scholarship prizes. What are they doing with all that money? Hosting a journal can’t be that expensive.
It all goes to the C-Suits and any investors.
One should do a study about much these supposedly open access journals are profiting and who are their shareholders and what not
Luckily there are several tools and scripts to bypass paywalls and also those that redirect to the original publication, when the anti-paywall does not work.
My man, my guy. I beg of you, shared them please
Searching original sources of sci publications
Skip paywalls (sadly not all)
- https://www.removepaywall.com
- https://www.smry.ai
- https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates
- https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
- https://paywallreader.com
Scripts
Please don’t give the overlords ideas. “Minimum wage” as a currency? Talk about dystopian present, damn.
Time to start another journal, one not run by antiscience moneygrubbing trashbags!
