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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@academicaunties @academicchatter #OpenAccess @academia @publishingtalk #phdlife

Yes, the ex-publishers have essentially reversed the net flow of information: it used to flow from them to us, through the journals. Now we provide them with our data and that's where the real gold is found:

"Academic publishers’ most valuable asset used to be their journals. Now, it’s the data they collect from researchers and then sell."

ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-s…

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Elsevier’s stranglehold on academia: How publishers get rich off our data

Academic publishers get rich collecting and then selling data from researchers. That is extremely concerning, say UG researchers.

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We're looking to grow our editorial team at JOSS blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/10/ca…

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Call for editors | Journal of Open Source Software Blog

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