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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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.