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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 25 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

All universities need to collaborate and be their own journals and cut the parasite out completely.

Journals provide neither the source material, not technical or administrative expertise, nor value for dollar.

Its a racket.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago

But nope – not even a mention of Diamond Open Access, not in the article and not from the interviewed people apparently.

"Mutual benefit" my a**e.

Academics are apparently just stupid.