@saul Somebody should send these authors this figure on what the publishers are doing with all the money they get from us:
Source: https://t.co/GtzRD0UmWO https://t.co/lAtmJ1MubH
@NickARJones @GustavNilsonne Wouldn't it be much more efficient to bypass the parasites completely? After all, leaving out publishers stands to save us in excess of US$9b annually:
https://t.co/GtzRD0UmWO
So if you want this money to come back to us, why give it to them in the first place?
Very interesting discourse yesterday night on the cost of publishing and #OpenAccess. The audience was keen to find out more about concrete data and calculations of the *cost* of #publishing a research article #OA in a scholarly journal. Here is the link: https://t.co/K4j6yOSZQF https://t.co/N62pD2TAfv
Nice use case which demonstrates that #openaccess publishing with full editorial service and peer review can be sustainably managed for about 400 USD — proof of concept for the findings in our recent study about *cost* of acad publishing by @brembs and me: https://t.co/phnWP2s4y2 https://t.co/cBSHJ4bpiv