It’s possible that the university paid your publication fees so that they didn’t end up on your desk. The university paid for mine, but there for sure were fees.
Wow…now that I reflect on this, I do remember journals asking me to submit a paper then mentioning a submission fee. I just ignored them seeing the obvious scam and invalidity it would cause to the article. No matter how much I am aware of the inherent contradictions in the system, I’m still surprised by the greed and lack of integrity.
This system looks like it has such a great opportunity to be overtaken by free journals. Universities are in a great position to make this happen if they can weed out their political corruption through a system of rules and transparency. However, having worked in academia, I can see how this would be really hard to pull off. All of those egos competing to be the top ego and cliques can catastrophically toxify a project without resolve.
What‽ I’ve published around 5 articles, and I’ve never paid anything. Is this something new?
It’s possible that the university paid your publication fees so that they didn’t end up on your desk. The university paid for mine, but there for sure were fees.
Or the PI via the grant
It highly depends on the field and journals. In my field, most society-run journals are without fees unless you want Open Access.
Wow…now that I reflect on this, I do remember journals asking me to submit a paper then mentioning a submission fee. I just ignored them seeing the obvious scam and invalidity it would cause to the article. No matter how much I am aware of the inherent contradictions in the system, I’m still surprised by the greed and lack of integrity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_processing_charge?wprov=sfla1
https://beta.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/pricing?trial=true
Also…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing?wprov=sfla1
And, posted an hour ago:
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/504112/Publisher-Wants-2-500-To-Allow-Academics-To-Post-Their-Own
This system looks like it has such a great opportunity to be overtaken by free journals. Universities are in a great position to make this happen if they can weed out their political corruption through a system of rules and transparency. However, having worked in academia, I can see how this would be really hard to pull off. All of those egos competing to be the top ego and cliques can catastrophically toxify a project without resolve.
Varies from field to field. But many journals that ask for money from authors without providing open access are scams.
Yea they do seem like predatory/scammy.