[CheshireTheCat]

Perhaps an oldie, but a goodie in light of current events.

Robert Maxwell, father of a certain paramour of a certain allegedly hanged man.

[CheshireTheCat]

Thanks for the Skepolitic for the heads up on this.

[Yo-Yo]

Is the practice in academia of “publish or perish” bad for science?

[UnwashedPeasant]

Expensive research reports are often available free on Sci Hub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

Current URL: sci-hub.se

[sauropod]

I’m familiar with Elsevier. You pay for most articles.

[hinckley buzzard]

Seems to be obsessing about the life history of this Maxwell guy. Misses the real issues entirely, ie the crisis of irreproducibility, the collapse of the “peer review” system, and the actual dynamics of publishing: publications are the coin of the realm in academia, and researchers will pay by the page to get their articles published in many journals such as Elsevier created. Much of “peer-reviewed science” is rubbish, but how to sort it out when editors don’t even know what they are publishing.

[jimfr]

Uhm, Usually the authors pay to have an article published and the subscribers (universities and indivuals) also pay to receive the journals. so how they are loosing money is a big question.
As for peer review, is often very politcal and can be very difficult to get published if you don’t have a popular conclusion.