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Can an international PhD Student in Australia make a living with an APA scholarship and 8 hours teaching work per week?
My "problem":
I am from Austria and currently in the process of applying for a PhD position in Brisbane, Australia. My supervisors said that I might be eligible for an
APA (Australian Postgraduate ...
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How much does a publisher charge authors if they want to make their book open access?
Is there any research/study/survey that looked at how much publishers charge authors if they want to make their books (textbooks or research books) open access?
I am most interested in the field of ...
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Is attending a more expensive and prestigious foreign university a good financial investment? [closed]
Here's the question: is university a sound investment? I'll be clear, since I know that this situation and this questions are experienced by many people. I'm going to face very soon the choice of ...
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Selling/Buying software in academia
I have written multiple opensource programs as part of my PhD, and some of these programs require a dedicated server somewhere on the internet to work. Mainly it is online databases, but also things ...
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Why pay a fee to have your article (in a subscription-based journal) made open access when you can just put the preprint on arXiv?
Upon acceptance, some journals offer open access through an optional fee. This model differs from the usual open access model in which all authors pay a fee and all accepted papers are accessible ...
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Dataset of retraction fines per publisher
I read in the Nature comment Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors authored by David B. Allison, Andrew W. Brown, Brandon J. George& Kathryn A. Kaiser and published today
Science relies ...
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Will publisher waive fee if currently unaffiliated?
I am in between jobs and want to send a quick note to a journal. However, I do not have any lab to pay the ridiculous publishing fees, is there any way I can ask the journal to waive the publishing ...
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What can I do if I submitted a paper believing a journal to be free for authors, and after acceptance I'm asked to pay a fee?
Reading about a journal A, I understood that authors can submit papers free of charge to this journal. I have submitted a paper and received a letter of acceptence with a bill. The editor said that I ...
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Can I withdraw an accepted paper if the fees are higher than expected because the proof is longer?
I have received the acceptance of my paper from Editor board. However, the print charges is much higher than I expected. My original manuscript contained only 12 pages but the proof (final version), ...
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Sources to cover open-access fees
As this question mentions and as I know from my (limited) experience, some journals demand a high fee to make the articles you submit to be available as open-access. For example, a quote from JVSTB ...
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Why do we pay to present at conferences?
I recently presented at a conference abroad (my first one), and the entry fee was $50 USD. Now, as this was my first conference, the concept of paying to present at a conference is still a foreign one ...
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Can I get a refund if I bought an article that contains a major flaw?
Is it possible to get a refund from a publisher if I bought an article that contains a major flaw (i.e.,one that invalidates the main results or the main conclusions)? Assume the article was bought ...
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Why don't most academic conferences make their budget publicly available?
I wonder why most academic conferences don't make their budget publicly available.
Making budgets publicly available could help explain high conference fees (which attendees often complain about), ...
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"If multiple papers are accepted for presentation, each paper requires a separate registration fee." -> Why?
I have seen several conferences that specify:
If multiple papers are accepted for presentation, each paper requires a separate registration fee.
Why? Is that purely financially motivated (e.g. an ...
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Is it normal for an instructor to charge students to complete copyrighted homework?
I have a class in a US university that is using a 3rd-party site to charge students a fee to access some of the homework essential to the course. One of the instructors (not mine) holds the copyright ...
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What should I do if I cannot afford a journal Article Processing Charge?
I would like to publish an article open access, but I cannot afford the article processing charge (APC). I am based in the UK, so I do not qualify for some of the available fee reductions or waivers. ...
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How much does it cost the publisher to publish an academic article?
I am interested to know the cost of publishing an academic article. I do not mean in the simple sense of "what does a given journal charge an author to publish?" or "what does an association or ...
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Paid publication fee and now no contact from journal: what should I do?
My situation is the following: I submitted an article to a journal which appeared in Scimago, the article got accepted, and they charged a fee for publication costs. I have now paid this fee from ...
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Should I mention reimbursements for financial expenditures when first contacting tentative speakers for a workshop?
I am thinking of organizing a workshop in my field and am currently in the process of looking for potential speakers. Some of these I'll be contacting for the first time ever by email. The speakers I ...
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Do employees in public universities pay less taxes than those in industry?
Since public universities are nonprofit organizations, do their employees including faculty pay less taxes than those who work in industry?
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How can I find journals in my field that do not charge author fees? [closed]
I am in search of an algorithms journal that does not ask for publication fee.
It doesn't matter to me whether it is an open-access journal or not.
I have been searching for journals with no ...
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Do any legitimate conferences charge per publication?
In computer science, or at least my subfield of it, most research is published in conference proceedings. The usual procedure is to write a full article, submit it to a conference, and then if it's ...
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Is it possible to get application fee refunded from PhD programs that miss admission decision deadlines?
I'm sure I already know the answer to this question, but I feel compelled to ask.
With the passing of midnight a couple hours ago, the April 15 deadline used by many US graduate schools, by which ...
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Why do some universities charge an application fee?
In the high competition of admission in top universities, it is common that every applicant must send lots of applications to different universities/programs to get approval for a PhD program.
Some ...
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Relation between subscription fees and adminstrative costs
Does anybody know what the ratio between subscription fees and the real article processing charges (so actual administrative costs) is? So in other words, how much money is made out of the ...
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Elsevier open-access fee waived for subscribers?
I have recently been comparing publishers regarding their policies on double dipping (charging an open-access fee for publishing in a hybrid journal and then charging again a subscription fee). Many ...
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Are there any trustworthy Mathematics fee-based open access journals? [closed]
Some open access journals, like Integers for example, don't charge the author any fee for publishing their article. Other open access journals do charge the author a fee and the author has to pay the ...
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If I buy a research article, will I get any potential retraction statement or erratum free of charge?
If I buy a research article, will I get any potential retraction statement or erratum free of charge? Or will I have to spend additional money to obtain access to it? I see that some retraction ...
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How to calculate the rate to pay a recruiting agency for new students?
When a university allows agencies in other countries (perhaps in the same country?) to recruit students for them, as I understand it, the university will pay the agency some fee for each student ...
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When I reapply to universities which have previously rejected my applications, do I have to pay application fees again?
I applied to a few US universities last year and they rejected my application because of my low GRE scores. Now I want to reapply again to the same universities. Can you explain the process to ...
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Would a legitimate journal send unsolicited email to an author offering to feature an article in their own publication, for a fee?
I have received an email from a journal in the field of engineering saying that they found an article of mine and want to feature it in their own publications for a fee. I cannot tell if this is ...
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Do people actually buy research articles?
Research articles are often priced at 20-40 USD. I know that typically a researcher's institution subscribes to myriads of journals, and that some research articles are accessible online for free ...
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What is a reasonable reimbursement time for conference travel from a department?
In my job before grad school, I could expense items as soon as I had a receipt and I knew exactly when the money would arrive (typically the following pay cycle). In grad school, it seems to be a ...
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Is there a way to save my students money on a textbook?
I'm considering requiring a textbook that sells for US$140 on Amazon. Used copies cost $95 and up. I expect about 60 students to take the course. Our students are not wealthy. Some will skip ...
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Is it ethical to ask the postdoc employer to cover my trips for visa purposes as well as my main travel fees?
I will soon start doing a postdoc in country A, and the employer says there will be a generous relocation package. My home is in country B and I did my PhD in country C.
The question is: in order to ...
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What are the profit margins of academic publishers?
With an eye to finding the reasons behind high journal subscription costs: do journals / publishers make outrageous margins, or are prices truly justified by the costs to run journals? In other words, ...
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What is reasonable expenditure on meals during a conference?
I am currently at a conference in the US
and I will be reimbursed by my adviser.
I was wondering what is a reasonable per diem spending for meals?
Of course I could ask my adviser directly,
but I ...
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Should a speaker attend a conference where he/she is required to pay their own registration fee?
I have been accepted to present a paper at a conference in a recognised university.
There is no doubt about the 'legitimacy' or public standing of this university as it is recognised worldwide. In ...
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Reference for annual journal subscription costs paid per university?
Is there any resource that lists how much each university pay in journal subscription fees? I am mostly interested in US universities (E.g. Harvard: $3.5M/year in 2014, MIT: $4M/year in 2006 for ...
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What does it mean to be offered waived-fee OA publishing?
I submitted a manuscript to a journal for non-open-access publication and the editor came back and said that they want to publish the article as open-access (same journal) and waive the fee for this.
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Can being free of publication charge be an indication of being a non-predatory journal?
Though some serious journals charge publication fee as well, to a certain extent, can being free of publication charge be an indication,
albeit not a sure indication,
of being a non-predatory journal?...
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Who is earning money when users buy access to a research article?
I'm a software engineer, but I used to have to read a lot of papers about neurology. I am slightly disappointed by the high price for access to the full text of research papers. I can understand a ...
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Is there any way to pressure textbook publishers to reduce price?
I am an instructor in a medium-sized state school in the USA. The price for the textbook to the introductory math course that I teach just increased. Again. A new, paperback copy costs 170 USD. I want ...
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What is a reasonable rate to charge for editing someone else's thesis?
I'm a PhD student in engineering. My supervisor would like to pay me to edit a colleague's thesis for grammar and form. He asked me to look around for the going rate and let him know, but I'm not ...
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Student registration fee at conferences for ex-students for work done as a student
I did some work as part of my final year undergraduate project and wrote a paper which has now been accepted at a conference. Though I am now working in the industry, I have listed my affiliation as ...
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How professional it is to ask for rebate in conference registration fees?
I got two papers accepted in a decent IEEE conference. My current organisation (an industrial R&D lab) says that the conference fees are way too high and they would consider approval of funds only ...
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Tax write-off for research-related expenses in the US?
I am wondering if any research-related expenses can be applied toward a personal tax write-off (in the U.S.). For example, assume I traveled to a conference or meeting to present my research, and all ...
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Is it unethical for professional societies to offer conference discounts to members?
There is a recurring pattern I see in conferences organized by several professional associations. Two different conference fees are offered, X for members and Y for non-members, with Y>X. Often, the ...
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American universities - where does all the money go? [closed]
This question is about Title-IV eligable 4 year institutions in America, the majority of which are non-profit.
Colleges have a range of funding sources, including tution fees. Tuition fees have ...
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Do Springer, IEEE, Elsevier charge a fee for non-open-access journals?
My PhD advisor and lab colleagues think that Springer, IEEE and Elsevier journals non-open-access charge authors for publishing a paper. (They usually only publish in local journals.) All the info I'...
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