Comment on Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked

• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Writers deserve to be paid but not academic writers?

  Or is it that science should be free but culture should be gate locked?

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Scientific writers should be paid, but most of them receive grants for specific research or do their research in their function as employed researchers/lecturers at some university. Their work is then posted on some scalping journals that are charging the author a listing fee, and then charge readers an access fee, which they pocket in its entirety. Scientific authors receive ZERO compensation for their work.

    Source: Used to work in academia, published a few articles myself. Best case is that your work is considered “outstanding” and the journal graciously lists it for free instead of charging you for it.

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  • explore_broaden@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s because the people making money off most academic papers are not the authors, rather the journal/conference they likely had to pay to publish in. Textbooks are a different story though.

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As it stands, they don’t get paid when you pay for reading it anyways.

    They themselves pay to publish it to a journal, the journal then sells it to you.

    The scientists aren’t paid by people reading their science, they are paid by grants, for doing the science in the first place.

    I wholeheartedly support academic “piracy”, it only hurts the gatekeepers.

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• jorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  we sure do twist and cram so many things into a capitalist framework, if only there were another way

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