Academic Journals Doing Crime

Thanks for watching. Text your friends in academics every now and then. Make sure they’re ok.

Not only that… but also you should give away all your dataset available to support “open research” . Some journals now only accept publishing if all to data is available in a “trusted repository”

Thank you for sayin the TRUTH ! 🙏🙏

The truth hits so hard. 😭

Astronomy was open access for decades, everything would immediately get posted on arxiv, and even journals themselves would make everything public after just 1 year. Now, though, they have moved to the "open access" mode exclusively, which basically means the same access that everyone has already had before, but now the page charges are doubled.

This is brilliant.

Was it Science of Nature that got scammed by the fake genetic scientist from China? I forgot.

hahaha...that's the reality

Let's just remember (though I have no idea if it's on purpose) that the "Triste" from Tristopher, in French, means sad.

Sounds like a great way for corporate sponsored research to co-op the journals reputation

As a new RN, I can say in nursing school, I had to purchase several peer reviewed articles to write my evidence based papers. It's a complete racket. $50 gets you 24-48 hr access, that's all.

So sad.

Genius

American healthcare is a perfect trap to extract money both, from customers, and working people. Good luck keeping that. It is established already.

Every single one of these vids are just the pitfalls of capitalism... we'll never defeat this b.s. until every industry is unionized, healthcare is free for poor people, and every child in th country has a full belly.

The problem: Academics HAVE to publish in order to receive tenure (because they are MASSIVELY underpaid working 80-hour weeks until they get tenure. Do institutions withhold tenure from professors in order to avoid paying them more while milking them for every last drop of lifeforce? Yes. Yes they do. You see academics don't own their research or their inventions, the University does, and they can make BANK off of them). Because of this, there is strong incentive to publish ANYTHING, even stuff that really shouldn't be published (bad study, bad interpretation, you don't trust the source etc).

The (current) solution: Peer-review. If you try to publish bad studies, your peers will catch it and this will limit the amount of bad information put out into the world that can affect anything from healthcare decisions, to legal decisions, to law making.

The capitalistic result: Journals require academic authors to pay to submit the article ($250-$800), it goes through peer-review (free for the journal - all peer reviews are volunteer), if the study is accepted you pay to publish ($300 - $1000, or $2500 - $11000 depending on the journal and whether you choose open access), at which point as the author you lose all rights to the information and can be sued by the journal for plagiarism if you use your own work without citing the journal. This ensures that more people go to that journal and, if you did not pay for open access, pay the $40 fee to "rent" the article whatever the fuck that means. Given that most academic research requires 40+ citations... you can see how much money can be made here.

The solution? Pay academics a fair wage and release them from this INSANE publication pace (one publication a year is absolute batshit nonsense) which makes them desperate prey.

As someone who majored in English it is depressing to know my work is being outsourced to 12 year olds. I am also not surprised.

guys, if anybody is still here, I need some official american journals about computer science, but I can't find it 😭😭😭

I know it's frustrating and scary. I didn't study neuroscience. I would prefer to be reading journals in my area of interest.

So if you don't have open access?

Traditional learning environments is something that need to be remembered

I support open science research. I didn't understand it at the beginning.

Let's set science back! Let's kick the legs of the chair we're standing on, what's the worst that could happen? Scientific stagnation? millions of excess deaths per decade? A domino effect that causes the extortion of so many life lines to lead to the decay of our society?

That's business these days.

"... we do crime ..."

Nutshell!

It's such a racket 😐

Im seriously upset and heartbroken over yhe US system.

I'm Australian, we have free health care, its not perfect but at least even our ambulances are free along with any hospital visits and admissions.

My friend id a nurse in yhe US in a busy, large hospital (cant remember the name) and the shit i hear about ehat goes on, it breaks my poor heart 😢

Getting the Gold access (freely available to the public immediately on publication, rather than green: freely available after 6 months) on my sole paper cost £21,000. Part of the stipulation of my public funding was that all research had to be immediately available, so that was built into the budget. Also they wanted to charge another £2000 per figure to print them in colour in the paper editions (colour pixels in pdfs are free...for now).
By comparison my stipend was ~£15k p.a., and I had a total of £3k research budget for the whole PhD.
fun stuff

Genius. Just genius

Yesss

Scihub my dudes... Scihub

Scientists and multi-million dollar institutions after putting all new research articles behind paywalls:

“Why do so many poor people reject the science on vaccines, evolution, and climate change?”

It's a monopoly baby. Business baby. This one's criminally underated.

You know, and we wonder why people are buying into misinformation about covid and the vaccine. My dad sends me crazy claims excerpted from articles on the internet and I'm like, "SHOW ME THE STUDY!" But when you try to look up studies and stuff you can't even read them. I'm a nurse at a hospital and I don't even know "my institution's username" or credentials or whatever. Much less someone at home.

That’s exactly it, and now you know why the reproducibility crisis exists.

It used to be the assumption that pay to publish massively undermined the credibility of a journal.

I work for a research organization that has its own publishing wing. Every time I look at the publishing cost break down, I can’t but wonder if we arn’t getting ripped off somehow.

heinous. so true

yeah, this kinda thing is why I dropped out to become a housewife :|

Not-so-fun fact: Not sure if this is relevant to academia, but extortionate pricing for services and products aimed at professionals is often because such people can write off "business expenses" on their taxes. You're much more tolerant of a high price tag if you're not on the hook for it, and vendors know it.

Best video about the topic, thanks and congratulations!

I was sincerely shocked last week when searching for literature about rabbits vaccine in dogs. I saw some papers which seemed interesting in Nature. I had to pay 32$ to read each article I was interested in, or else pay the yearly fee (which, at some point, when I can afford it, I will surely pay). 32 dollars for an article?! Holly cow! I would gladly pay if the fee was a bit more reasonable. I ended up going to pubmed and Scopus (for which I have access with my uni credentials).

Never shows up but i would like to congratualte the dentist overseeing the dental quality of all these gentlemen, it is above average 👍

It's almost like capitalism is the real problem...

Open access journals on a pay-to-play system is one of the reasons why predatory journals have exploded.

Thanks, open access...

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I love how the solution for a bad system is another bad system. Yay progress!

Tristopher needs to calm down, obviously he's wrong 😂😂

Capitalism. It's everywhere.

yo ho yo ho guess in what site am I

So true! All over the world!

this conversation has suddenly gotten serious... i was depressed already

This is extremely accurate