Major Revisions
The World's Leading Ecology Podcast
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about the hidden costs of publishing, referencing Josh Schimel's famous blog post on the subject. Where does open access and preprints fit into the current state and future of publishing? How would we alter the publishing landscape? How do you decide where to publish? Also, Jeff gets his license plate stolen.
Notes:
Josh Schimel - Why does it cost $2000 to publish a paper? Or: the fiction of an “Article Processing Charge” Music: Wavves - "Way Too Much" Tiny Ruins - "How Much"
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2/20/2020 02:47:30 pm
I am a friend now! Didn't know about the podcast. Interesting conversation and thoughts--much of which relates to issues I've run into before--such as the idea that "abandoning publishers" would ultimately lead to just recreating them. Kind of Animal Farm-ish: who gets to be the "pigs"? Maintaining the systems at large scale ultimately takes money. The question is whose? I also really appreciated the discussion of "open review" systems and Grace's question: "Who has the time?" Yeah, you could pay reviewers, but where does that money come from? As for how much Chief Editors get paid to manage the intellectual side of a journal; I know I don't get $30 K! And last I saw the numbers, no single senior editor for Ecology did either.
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