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How to switch quickly to diamond open access: The best journals are free for authors and readers | Free Science Blog
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| | [AI summary] The article critiques the high costs of academic publishing, arguing that science funders should directly pay to create a network of prestigious, free 'diamond open access' journals to reduce dependency on commercial publishers.
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Tolkien and Fantasy: Publishing Mordor-style
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| | Academic publishing is at root a kind of scam. The publishers get away with not paying academics (or paying them very little) because aca...
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage - Crooked Timber
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More thoughts on Open Access Journals | michaelschoon
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| Recently an article in Science surveyed open access journals and found a number of distressing findings with respect to the peer review process. An overview is available at:http://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/news/sting-exposes-wild-west-of-open-access-publishing.html?utm_content=bufferb2a6d&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer The original version in Science is at:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full As the Science article acknowledges, the same results could be found if we did a survey of traditional journals as...