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[โ€“] bazus1@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean he's right, but to hear it put so frankly is still a slap in the face.

[โ€“] morrowind@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Content creators on places like youtube earn between 55%-75% of the revenue. Academics get nothing from elsevier.

[โ€“] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Permanently unpaid intern for Elsevier

[โ€“] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You don't have to pay to your employer as an unpaid intern.

[โ€“] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 33 points 1 year ago

Elsevier is a company that unashamedly turns grants straight into profits.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

I'm usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutions...

...but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldn't exactly cry about it.

[โ€“] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Cory Doctorow wrote a great article about academic publishing a few days ago: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier

Things are looking up!

[โ€“] haerrii@feddit.org 8 points 1 year ago

See the hottest papers this month with our pay per view plans, exclusively on OnlyScience by Elsevier!

[โ€“] gex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Why be a Youtuber or a Tiktoker when you can be an Elsevierer