> “Nature might as well post a sign that says "LMICs scientists not welcome > here", said Catherine Kyobutungi, Executive Director at the African > Population and Health Research Center. “Nature is out of touch with reality. > It is a daily struggle for institutions like ours to financially support our > researchers to pay open access fees. A few funders pay these fees but only > for papers coming out of projects they have funded. I don't know in which > world Nature thinks it's okay to charge fees equal to or more than the small > grants many LMICs researchers can access,” she added.
It's not well-summed-up by "prestige". This topic came up in FriAM, recently, wherein I objected to purchasing a proprietary tool to replicate the research of another group, preferring a tool that *is* more available to LMIC researchers like R. It was amazing to me that I had to make this argument at all, much less the privileged counter-arguments being made, e.g. that ~$1000/yr for that software wasn't significant compared to what I was being paid. I'd much rather donate $1000/yr to the R Foundation than propagate the pay-to-play game being offered. There's bound to be a similar model for publications. On 12/3/20 9:42 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: > https://www.bespacific.com/how-prestige-journals-remain-elite-exclusive-and-exclusionary/ > > <https://www.bespacific.com/how-prestige-journals-remain-elite-exclusive-and-exclusionary/> > -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
