The university should be the place demonstrating socioecological change, serving as a site of experimentation and praxis (see Dunlap et al., 2023). This, however, could not be further from the truth. Beside advancing technologies of digital, political and military control (Chatterjee & Maira, 2014), not to mention genetic dissection and animal vivisection—or some degree of this (Pellow, 2014)—universities fail to enact real examples of socioecological of renewability and sustainability. How come universities are not overflowing with agroecology, permaculture and forest gardens on and inside universities? How come universities are not self-generating their own electricity needs through wind, solar and other lower-carbon infrastructures? We, unfortunately, are witnessing the opposite at university campuses around the world.
This is also a big reason why I’m few weeks from submitting my masters for inspection, and 90% of my references/sources are from Annas Archive / Zlib. Our uni library, in supposedly rich nordic country Finland, just cant afford all the licenses. Luckily all our professors and researchers are in on the “secret”, but its just a fucking joke.
Most of the world economy is on the same fucking joke. Just leeches upon leeches upon leeches… And so few people giving anything usefull to the world. I fucking try, but god damn these useless money leeches in the middle try to make it hard as possible. Fuck. So fucking angry, but what can I do but try to minimize the damages I do on my personal part.
Keep screaming. People are not informed on this.
Good luck on this final push; take care of yourself where possible and stay angry at the things that deserve it
“OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration.”
Core has also been quite helpfull in open access science.
Such a young person and already so realistic and cynical?
Haha, PeNAS
Buncha dix.
so back in the day we needed publishers for distribution. now with the Internet, distribution is easy. but prices only went up
associate editors and referees are unpaid volunteers. typesetting is also mainly done by the authors. but prices are high because the publisher wants to profit.
there are quite a few high quality journals that are fairly priced and published by non profit publishers. these are the only journals authors should publish in …
How I sleep after downloading my research papers illegally
is the meme that you’re sleeping well, you’re sleeping in prison or that you’re sleeping well in prison?
One should do a study about much these supposedly open access journals are profiting and who are their shareholders and what not
Given the times I’ve seen news articles and screenshots of poorly vetted published journals. Surely a free open source publisher managed by the academic community can’t be much worse? I also don’t know shit about the requirements to actually publish so this is probably a naive take
Academic publishing seems like a problem that should be easy to solve. It’s a situation where greed is outright making the service worse for everyone, so it seems like a new journal that does things differently (e.g. by not charging researchers) could become wildly successful… So why doesn’t that happen? Are there barriers to creating new journals?
Libgen and Scihub exist for this exact reason. How is it we’ve arrived at a situation where capitalists are deciding how knowledge is propagated?
sighs from Eastern Europe
You’d think that they’re using the money for prizes for reviewers or as scholarship prizes. What are they doing with all that money? Hosting a journal can’t be that expensive.
Is that 15 weeks of minimum wage or 15 months?
Months. Brazil’s minimum wage is BRL 1413 per month, which is around $273.
Please don’t give the overlords ideas. “Minimum wage” as a currency? Talk about dystopian present, damn.
Time to start another journal, one not run by antiscience moneygrubbing trashbags!
only option is pay out of pocket
Or, ya know, self publish.
That’s not compatible with the rest of the managerial bureaucracy. And it’s not peer-reviewed…
Doesn’t publishing come after getting your stuff reviewed by peers?
(But even if it’s done after, then self-publishing then makes it easier for peers to get your work to review it, which should increase overall quality)
Reviewers need to be invited and selected to be a good match.
Otherwise, you’re just describing preprint servers:
