This post contains several resources on how publishers are generating wild amounts of profit from academic publishing.
PCI Webinar serie - Fernando Racimo - Ethical publishing: how do we get there? - March 2023
Wiley Removes Goodin as Editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy
How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress
A tale of ghoulish commercialisation
Journal resignations
Overview of resignations: Is the Tide Turing in Favour of Universal and Equitable Open Access
Elsevier: NeuroImage transition - all editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal, Imaging Neuroscience: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf
Resignation of Critical Public Health Editorial Board members
‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees
More information
- How to build better science - presentation by Dan Goodman
- A short argument for why the big publishers cannot be part of a publishing reform effort- Dan Goodman
- Publication reform panel
- Study of the evolution of APC costs and electronic subscriptions for French institutions
- Ivy Plus Libraries weigh in on OSTP guidance on access to federally funded research
- Academic publishing is lazy and unethical
- Shifts to open access with high article processing charges hinder research equity and careers
- No Diamonds for DevBio
- Open for business: Authors are increasingly paying to publish their papers open access. But is it fair or sustainable?
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