Should granting rights to an academic press to charge €200 for a copy of one's research monograph (hardcover, the crappy glued print-on-demand paperback is just €100) even be considered "publishing"?
#Journals | Security and Safety "Secure and efficient Covert Communication for blockchain-integrated SAGINs"
Weijia Li, Yuan Zhang, Xinyu He and Yaqing Song
I just did some primary-school level investigative work using Google Scholar to find out whether the use of generative #AI is genuinely a widespread issue in #AcademicPublishing and, within five minutes, I have cause for despair... 😲 #AcWri#AcademicChatter
New diamond open access journal 'Syntactic Theory and Research' to be founded by former editors of Syntax, resigning from editorial positions due to errors made by Wiley-Blackwell in publication process vs free labour expected of authors/reviewers/editors @linguistics@academicchatter#syntax#linguistics#OpenAccess#AcademicPublishing
TIL that there's a term for an observation about inequities in science that I've been describing to a few people I talk to regularly - it's called "Parachute Science"
"There are often inequities in international research relationships, in which studies conducted in the Global South are led by scientists based in the Global North with limited involvement of local researchers and poor investment in local capacity building. This is a practice known as parachute science. "
From:
Global inequities in local science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02064-2 (sadly behind a paywall 😢). Nature Ecology and Evolution doesn't even allow Open Access for such articles!?! 😡
"Parachute science is a term to describe the inequity in research relationships between Global North and South scientists. This is typically characterized by a lack of meaningful, long-term involvement of local researchers in research and of investment in building local research capacity (Asase et al., 2021; de Vos, 2022; Stefanoudis et al., 2021). Similar, often synonymous, terms include helicopter or neo-colonial science (Ahmadia et al., 2021). Such inequitable relationships are sometimes conducted with the best of intentions but may persist due to poor awareness and institutional barriers (Mwampamba et al., 2022)."
Has anyone come across journals asking for similarity checks for your manuscripts as you submit them? e.g. a report from Turnitin? I haven't come across this before but would be interested to know if you have... @academicchatter #AcademicWriting#AcademicPublishing
Today I am discovering the wonderful world of Open Access APCs. I, a poor queer independent researcher, would like to publish my research open access because I believe it should be free to any who need it. The publication we were pointed to as being ideal for publishing our work....wants to charge over $3000USD. I thought I was misreading that at first, but no apparently not. @academicchatter#academicchatter#OER#AcademicPublishing
Elsevier: spending your entire youth creating knowledge, then paying a billion dollar corporation to take it from you in exchange for career capital you can then use to buy meaningless promotions from other exploited individuals