On 26/11/20 10:00 pm, Roger Clarke wrote:
Some OA advocates criticize Springer Nature’s fee as too high. ...
If funders allow academics to hand the results of research to a company
for free to make money from, the company can't be blamed for accepting
this windfall.
it is a “prestige tax” ...
Yes, it is a prestige tax, but at least with an upfront fee the tax is
not hidden, as is it is when it is buried in the university
subscriptions budget.
high rejection rates ... not ... guarantee higher quality ...
Rejection rates are used by academics as a measure of quality, although
that has problems. Likewise the high cost will be seen by some academics
an indication of high quality (although they are not the ones paying).
or discoverability ...
Open access papers are no more, or less, discoverable. But open access
will remove the frustration of finding a paper, but then not being able
to read it, because it is behind a paywall.
“I think it would be absurd for any funder, university or author to
pay it,” he says. ...
I think it is absurd for any funder to pay researchers to write
papers, then pay more money so the researchers can read the papers.
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