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[–] [email protected] 106 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not only do you write the article for free, they will also charge you for the privilege of publishing in their journal.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Depends on the publishing method you choose. If you want free for readers, authors pay. If you want free publishing, readers pay. Reviewers never get paid. Editors get paid shit. Journals profit massively for doing barely anything. Terrible in all directions. Preprint servers are the future

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Was the article really written for free or was it written with tax-payer funded government grants?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

For the publisher it was written for free, yes. And the amount of founding increases with their fee.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I mean, ok, then, I, a taxpayer, want free access to the document I paid for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh it was funded with tax/university money so that means a 3rd party private company, which had nothing to do at all with the funding/research, gets to profit from it gottcha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They even have the "whale" concept where they charge more for graphs and pictures and even more for *gasp* colored versions of same.