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[–] [email protected] 153 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Academic Authors: $0

FAKE NEWS

This should be in the negatives. We have to pay to get papers published in these traditional journals.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And sometimes open access costs money for the author too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the university libraries. Yup, researchers are paid by the university, those researchers pay the publishers to place their articles, the peer reviewers are also paid by the university. And then the university has to shell out money to the publishers, so the articles can be accessed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

researchers are paid by the university

Not necessarily. A lot are paid by external research grants.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I must admit what I wrote was simplified.

If you take into account that a lot of research grants are financed by tax money though...