The university should be the place demonstrating socioecological change, serving as a site of experimentation and praxis (see Dunlap et al., 2023). This, however, could not be further from the truth. Beside advancing technologies of digital, political and military control (Chatterjee & Maira, 2014), not to mention genetic dissection and animal vivisection—or some degree of this (Pellow, 2014)—universities fail to enact real examples of socioecological of renewability and sustainability. How come universities are not overflowing with agroecology, permaculture and forest gardens on and inside universities? How come universities are not self-generating their own electricity needs through wind, solar and other lower-carbon infrastructures? We, unfortunately, are witnessing the opposite at university campuses around the world.
Is that 15 weeks of minimum wage or 15 months?
Months. Brazil’s minimum wage is BRL 1413 per month, which is around $273.
sighs from Eastern Europe
You’d think that they’re using the money for prizes for reviewers or as scholarship prizes. What are they doing with all that money? Hosting a journal can’t be that expensive.
One should do a study about much these supposedly open access journals are profiting and who are their shareholders and what not
Why isn’t Brazil on the list of countries that have their fees waived? Are they on the “rich” side of the spectrum for that to be considered or is there simply no agreement between Brazilian government/publishers?
Yes, I know this is treating a symptom rather than illness itself, but for the sake of today’s science and not the science of tomorrow, at least such an option should be available.
Brazil’s approach for fostering innovation and technology is to tax all outside tech at 100%, even though no local industry for the products even exists. I don’t have high expectations for them investing in scientific publishing.
This is also a big reason why I’m few weeks from submitting my masters for inspection, and 90% of my references/sources are from Annas Archive / Zlib. Our uni library, in supposedly rich nordic country Finland, just cant afford all the licenses. Luckily all our professors and researchers are in on the “secret”, but its just a fucking joke.
Most of the world economy is on the same fucking joke. Just leeches upon leeches upon leeches… And so few people giving anything usefull to the world. I fucking try, but god damn these useless money leeches in the middle try to make it hard as possible. Fuck. So fucking angry, but what can I do but try yo minimize the damages on my personal part.
Such a young person and already so realistic and cynical?
Good luck on this final push; take care of yourself where possible and stay angry at the things that deserve it
“OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration.”
Core has also been quite helpfull in open access science.
Keep screaming. People are not informed on this.
They are but until “apes together strong” takes peoples minds nothing will change. People feel powerless to do anything so companies just get away with it
That’s why we can’t shut up. :)
If the research was conducted with public money, it should be freely accessible by the public, change my mind…
Very cool. I know someone, in a fairly small but funded field, who had this sort of requirement — Elsevier had the relevant publication, but they couldn’t publish there due to access policies (or it was going to be painful to do so at any rate). So they started their own publication!
I forgot the specifics, but it essentially uses arXiv as the backend, and there’s a (commercially available?) frontend that lets editors and reviewers do their thing. “Publishing” in this journal is essentially just endorsing an arXiv paper; so it’s open access by design.
Really cool stuff. Their field is small enough that iirc they could kinda get critical mass to give Elsevier the finger and adopt this new platform. Warm fuzzy feeling thinking about it!
You forgot the part where this resulted in giving even more money to the publishers for the “Open access”. World is fucked.
Haha, PeNAS
Buncha dix.
Academic publishing seems like a problem that should be easy to solve. It’s a situation where greed is outright making the service worse for everyone, so it seems like a new journal that does things differently (e.g. by not charging researchers) could become wildly successful… So why doesn’t that happen? Are there barriers to creating new journals?
Libgen and Scihub exist for this exact reason. How is it we’ve arrived at a situation where capitalists are deciding how knowledge is propagated?
also a lot of research work in brazil disallows you to get a second job. you are forced to live with the little money they pay you.
its almost like they don’t want there to be research here.
only option is pay out of pocket
Or, ya know, self publish.
That’s not compatible with the rest of the managerial bureaucracy. And it’s not peer-reviewed…
Doesn’t publishing come after getting your stuff reviewed by peers?
(But even if it’s done after, then self-publishing then makes it easier for peers to get your work to review it, which should increase overall quality)
Reviewers need to be invited and selected to be a good match.
Otherwise, you’re just describing preprint servers:
How I sleep after downloading my research papers illegally
is the meme that you’re sleeping well, you’re sleeping in prison or that you’re sleeping well in prison?
And sci-hub paused adding more papers 😞
What? When? Why? Fuck!
science is meant to be pirated.
Fuck publishers.
Time to start another journal, one not run by antiscience moneygrubbing trashbags!
