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.
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.