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Just curious, where do you get the $2500-4000 figure? I work in nonprofit scientific publishing, and those figures are lowballing, but pretty normal. It takes a LOT of time and money to make an “accepted” article ready for publication. Not everyone works for Elsevier, but we all get a lot of nasty letters/emails/tweets from people who want knowledge to be freeeeeeeee, but also no plagiarism ...
posted to MeFi by a fiendish thingy at 7:45 AM on April 19, 2016


Also worth noting: Some open-access journals that have been criticized for poor quality control provided the most rigorous peer review of all. For example, the flagship journal of the Public Library of Science, PLOS ONE, was the only journal that called attention to the paper's potential ethical problems, such as its lack of documentation about the treatment of animals used to generate cells ... of the paper. It's also worth noting that many of the journals in this sting were published by Elsevier, which is notorious for predatory practices ...
posted to MeFi by en forme de poire at 2:10 PM on October 3, 2013


Rap Battle, really? I guess this could be fun, ...Aww shit here we go, Dude, Dude, you're always going off on trivial shit without warning, What the fuck led you to post this at 3:30 in my morning? I don't have time for you, Honestly, I feel like I've got much better shit to do, But so long as we're here, and you seem so ignorantly sincere, Lets lay some truth on you. You ... pay. I'm told that the rights to what I'm doing are even generally cheap Ironically, If those Elsevier fuckers have a defender on Metafilter its ...
posted to MetaTalk by Blasdelb at 6:44 AM on August 20, 2013


I just want to use this opportunity to say how much I hate Elsevier. They are a huge metastatic tumor on the frontal lobe of academic research. No academic publisher locks away more content with less justification. They would charge a sick orphan child for directions to the hospital. When the Information Wars hit in 2018, I hope they are first against the wall. JSTOR, I ain't got no beef wit ...
posted to MeFi by dephlogisticated at 1:20 PM on July 19, 2011


Is it those fuckers Elsevier?
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 5:56 PM on October 11, 2010


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