Ah Its expensive to make it availiable to everyone. Oh yeah we need money for peer reviews too haha
It’s so strange because publishing on the Internet is close to free, and I swear one of my peer reviewers lacked basic reading comprehension.
Not strange at all if it’s the german Springer company this refers to, they’re basically the Murdoch Empire, just publishing their stuff in German, so greed is in their DNA
There is two Springer companies
The problem is they base that number on the already massively inflated profits they made before going open access. The only reason they have to go open access is if they are not making a deficit in profit.
Funny enough, they are still double dipping in most cases because you still have to pay the subscription to access all the non-open access papers.
FOUR HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS
proceeds to justify the cost of unpaid peer reviewed digital publishing using pie charts and bar plots
The Pricemaster!
What’s the meme origin?
I found a band called Flake Michigan that maybe was the source but I don’t have Instagram to confirm.
This is the Price Master.
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