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Professorial student of Neurogenetics
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RossGayler , to academicchatter
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I am looking for a (preferably derogatory) term to evoke the steaming, interconnected mess of for-profit academic publishing, research-institution and funding-body selection criteria, and research career structure.

I was thinking of something like an analogue to "military-industrial complex" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex) - so something like "academic-publishing research-institution industrial complex".

I would greatly appreciate suggestions for a name for this.

@openscience @academicchatter @petersuber @albertcardona @brembs @jonny @UlrikeHahn

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@RossGayler @openscience @academicchatter @petersuber @albertcardona @jonny @UlrikeHahn

Maybe the "academic-parasitic complex"?

koen_hufkens , to academicchatter
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"Monopolist publisher objects to free dissemination of science funded through a tax evasion scheme"

It doesn't get much wilder than this I fear.

@academicchatter

https://www.science.org/content/article/bold-bid-avoid-open-access-fees-gates-foundation-says-grantees-must-post-preprints

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@koen_hufkens @academicchatter

The title and subtitle of that artilce are such a joke

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@albertcardona @koen_hufkens @academicchatter

Bbut we all know what is even more important than peer-reviewers, right?

That antiquated, dysfunctional time-devouring mess the journals use for a journal management system. If there is one thing peer-reviewers should indeed be paid for, it's damages for the pain and suffering caused by the gross negligence of the corporations that have not implemented a modern system that does the job efficiently. 100% of profits ought to go towards these damages

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@albertcardona @koen_hufkens @academicchatter

I like the idea of a penalty for authors of journal articles 😆

But I see several issues with that general concept.

First and foremost, it helps propagate the myth that the onus and responsibility were on individuals, when it's the institutions that are keeping the system alive and flush with funds.

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@albertcardona @koen_hufkens @academicchatter

Neoliberal and/or market-based individuals may argue that once nobody reads or publishes in journals any more, institutions will stop paying. I'd argue this is a false hope:

  1. With the big deals, for each institutions there are literally thousands of journals no member of that institutions ever publishes in or reads and yet they pay.
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@albertcardona @koen_hufkens @academicchatter

  1. With more than a dozen ways to get around paywalls, subscriptions have ceased to be necessary about a decade ago - and yet they kept paying.

  2. There is now more and more examles of institutions entering contracts with publishers despite all the committees aarguing against signing.

So I think institutions will just keep paying no matter what.

This means 'we' need to stop the money flowing. That is THE top priority.

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@albertcardona @koen_hufkens @academicchatter

Yes, that is absolutely correct. But the target should be to stop paying anything to legacy journals - and not to stop "using" them.

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@koen_hufkens @albertcardona @academicchatter

Indeed!
Which is why the target for us tenured faculty ust be to stop the money flowing, that keeps the legacy system alive. That is why I have joined our library committee a few years ago.

But even when we unanimously recommended to not sign with Elsevier, the president did aign anyway and falsely claimed he had giotten a recommendation!

That's about 250k in paxpayer money down the drain: nobody wanted it, nobody needed it.

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@scholar_farmer @albertcardona @koen_hufkens @academicchatter

Now that's a doozey! 😆

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@albertcardona @koen_hufkens @academicchatter

They did, briefly, and then just bought EditorialManager:

https://www.ariessys.com/news-and-events/press-releases/elsevier-acquire-aries-systems-best-class-publication-workflow-solutions-provider/

Looks like the onyl thing they can do is buy stuff. If they try to develop something that would actually help academics, they always fail.

But I've heard their implementation of surveillance technology snooping on us is working just fine, in contrast.

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@koen_hufkens @albertcardona @academicchatter

Oh, wow, awesome! I have now uopdated by post from 2017, to include a reference to your award from 2012, acknowledging that this wasn't my idea!

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2017/08/7-functionalities-the-scholarly-literature-should-have/

schwarze0fm , to random German
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Guten Morgen!

Ich habe das Gefühl, hier einiges zu verpassen und möchte einfach gerne (wieder) eine Timeline, die mit klugen, spannenden und interessanten Beiträgen gefüllt ist. Themen sind

Werft mir also bitte und gerne eure Vorschläge für Follows zu 😊.

Ich folge bereits @dorotheegoetze / @LenaOetzel / @dbellingradt usw. aber verstehe die Discovery hier immer noch nicht ganz und bin über eure Tipps sehr froh!

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@stefandumont @tillgrallert @Mareike2405 @schwarze0fm @histodons

Und ob das Parallelen zu den Grossverlagen sind:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207
Ganz genau!

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