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[–] Kvoth@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Journals are such a scam. Pay us so we can charge other people to read your work

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I get that it's a fee to safely archive and copy papers properly, with maybe access control and logging. I don't see the fees updating with the times , even if they're still maintaining archives with paper copies as well.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Elsevier and Nature Group are for-profit. That is the problem. Once profit is involved, morals and ideals go out the window

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 5 days ago

And more specifically, a bunch of parasites that demand to be paid a hundred times what the people who do all work start crowding around the trough, even before the stockholders get their cut.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

That’s why it’s broke