[hal ogen]

One can only hope...

[NobleFree]

Open peer review is an interesting idea - but who gets to designate who is and is not a “peer”?

As for the current high cost of published research, it’s simple: buyers are almost always spending someone else’s money.

[Grampa Dave]

While this isn’t a new argument, the Covid-19 pandemic is throwing a spotlight on how academic publishing works – an industry that some scientists say is based on a broken model and needs to be replaced.

Academic publishers have built highly profitable businesses by taking leading-edge scientific research, putting it to specialist review, and then selling it to companies, libraries and universities around the world.

It involved institutions like the University of California paying millions of dollars a year to get access to research that the author typically gives free to the publisher.

That element of the process has angered parts of academia for years, and the global coronavirus outbreak has reinvigorated the critics. Hundreds of scientists signed an online petition this month that prompted the publishers to unlock thousands of pages of coronavirus research from behind paywalls.

When, we survive the downside to our current national crisis, we will begin to see incredible positive changes. We will watch the rigid old guard, who controlled and disseminated the knowledge become irrelevant.

Big changes will be coming to schools education from K to Phd level. How we shop and buy our food, clothing and other purchases. How we attend our churches. How we get our news after eliminating fake new pushers. ??????

[SkyPilot]

“Peer Review” is the biggest joke on the planet.

[prophetic]

While they are at it, maybe they can get rid of the corrupt high price fixing for college text books

[Pontiac]

It involved institutions like the University of California paying millions of dollars a year to get access to research that the author typically gives free to the publisher.

Somebody post the crying baby meme.

These universities have billions in the bank.

Most of the research that these authors have published are funded by the US government or private corporations.

I have very little sympathy for these universities have to pay for access to research done by others.

And it seems a rather simple solution is for the universities to keep the data on their own servers and sell access to each other at more reasonable prices.

Not to mention a great many universities have their own publishing houses, so what are they complaining about.

[JimRed]

ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unable or unwilling to create or provide anything of value to others, pontificating while hiding out in a college or university and expecting to be paid for it, usually from public funds.