Timeline for Why are academics not paid royalties on published research papers in IEEE, ACM etc.?
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| Mar 7, 2019 at 20:55 | comment | added | Muze | Yes but you still can give a brain teaser or something? | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 20:52 | comment | added | cag51♦ | @Muze - well, when you already know everything.... /s | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 20:50 | comment | added | Muze | Ask a question. So many answers and no questions. Why? | |
| May 2, 2018 at 17:29 | history | edited | cag51♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 2, 2018 at 11:32 | comment | added | terdon | @cag51 at least in my field, Elsevier journals charge me for publishing, charge you for reading, and get editing services for free! This is not something you can justify and is why so many of us are looking towards the Open Access journals which may still charge me for publishing but at least let you read it for free! | |
| May 2, 2018 at 10:38 | comment | added | DetlevCM | "The journal has to have a few qualified scientists on staff to select papers, propose corrections, etc. " - Reviewers are normally employed by universities or industries and not paid anything by the journal. I would hope the editor is - but the editor often has a professorship at a university as well. While one would hope that the better journals do indeed employ some academic staff, there is no clear evidence on the outside that they do. From outside it looks like they take a paper, hand it to reviewers, receive the results (responses/corrections) then re-typeset the document and publish it. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 8:05 | comment | added | Sylvain Ribault | Elsevier makes about 5000$ per published article. Costs are of the order of 500$ per article. The difference is not all profit: some of it goes to paying executives, lobbyists, salespersons, etc, and to building a dominant position across the whole research infrastructure by buying promising platforms. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 2:43 | comment | added | learnerX | And I agree with you there. My point is that it is unjust to profit heavily off of scientists. If profits can be kept in a reasonable range and hence fee-per-paper can be reduced, it would be a just system and I am happy. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 2:36 | comment | added | cag51♦ | I agree -- some publishers (e.g., Elsevier) make huge profits, and it's a real problem. But I think the solution is for them to charge less, not to pay royalties or charge nothing. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 2:31 | comment | added | learnerX | There is no problem with the journal covering their costs. My question is: are they just covering their costs or are they making a substantial/hefty profit which is leading to an elite few at the top (maybe shareholders of publishing house) getting very rich? It seems they are making billions of dollars in profit -- after covering all distribution, publication and other costs. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 2:23 | history | answered | cag51♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |