Jacek Radwan
@jacek-radwan.bsky.social
evolutionary biologist working on the intersection of immunogenics and sexual selection
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Agreed, but learned society journals should strive to become more open and inclusive! Is this OK for our journals to hide behind paywalls that preclude free access by researchers from low income countries? More here: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
#SocietyJournals #SciPub
#SocietyJournals #SciPub
Why learned society journals stick to paywalls?
Just returned from an excellent conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) in Barcelona. There was a lot of excell...
trulyopenscience.blogspot.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Agreed, but learned society journals should strive to become more open and inclusive! Is this OK for our journals to hide behind paywalls that preclude free access by researchers from low income countries? More here: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
#SocietyJournals #SciPub
#SocietyJournals #SciPub
Agreed, but learned society journals should strive to become more open and inclusive! Is this OK for our journals to hide behind paywalls that preclude free access by researchers from low income countries? More here: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
#SocietyJournals #SciPub
#SocietyJournals #SciPub
Why learned society journals stick to paywalls?
Just returned from an excellent conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) in Barcelona. There was a lot of excell...
trulyopenscience.blogspot.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Agreed, but learned society journals should strive to become more open and inclusive! Is this OK for our journals to hide behind paywalls that preclude free access by researchers from low income countries? More here: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
#SocietyJournals #SciPub
#SocietyJournals #SciPub
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This makes it unjustifiable to still count with thousands of unpaid hours, worth billions of dollars, from reviewers (eg doi.org/10.1186/s410...) and others, such as editorial board members in this case.
A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review - Research Integrity and Peer Review
Background The amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and journal publishing. However, this labor is under-recognized, its magnitude is unknown, and alternative way...
doi.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This makes it unjustifiable to still count with thousands of unpaid hours, worth billions of dollars, from reviewers (eg doi.org/10.1186/s410...) and others, such as editorial board members in this case.
Reposted by Jacek Radwan
We need urgent changes in academic publishing, which costs research institutions too much, draining important resources from science to unparalled high profit margins for big publishers (eg www.thenation.com/article/soci...).
How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress
Last month, the editorial team of NeuroImage resigned over the “unethical fees” charged by the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. Can scientists ditch the for-profit system?
www.thenation.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We need urgent changes in academic publishing, which costs research institutions too much, draining important resources from science to unparalled high profit margins for big publishers (eg www.thenation.com/article/soci...).
This is what "open acces" is doing: you pay you
publish
publish
January 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is what "open acces" is doing: you pay you
publish
publish
Reposted by Jacek Radwan
AAAS leadership was pushing to publish more by raising the acceptance rate somewhat and also wanted to increase the APC. The editors were comfortable with where bar had been set and did not want to raise the APC.
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January 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
AAAS leadership was pushing to publish more by raising the acceptance rate somewhat and also wanted to increase the APC. The editors were comfortable with where bar had been set and did not want to raise the APC.
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