A fellow #postdoc said she'd **Never** publish in Elsevier or MPDI even with waived APCs. She'd rather leave her work as a #preprint in perpetuity than publish with them. It got me wondering:
1. Do other #academics follow similar publishing embargoes?
2. Can such individual actions impact these publishing giants in any meaningful way?
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El Duvelle
in reply to Ajay Iyer • • •I am trying to do this to some extent (not publishing in MDPI or Elsevier or any other for-profit publishers) but I don't think I would stop at the preprint stage, instead I aim to do preprint + nonprofit journal.
Will this change anything to the state of the publication system? No, but like voting, it would if most people were doing the same...