Since neither I nor my university can afford Elsevier journals, I have
no access to papers published in them. In view of their excessive
profits, for some years I have not submitted papers to them and have
declined all requests to referee for them. If everyone did that, they
might reconsider their approach. I am not an Apple fan either - I use a
more reasonably priced native Linux laptop - but have to give Apple
credit for innovation.
George
On 07/01/2018 06:57 PM, Patrick Loll wrote:
I think what we should do is not publish in journal families where
the profit is above 10 per cent. Elsevier is the place to start as
their profit margins are like those of Apple, and of competition
there is none.
Elsevier: Like Apple, but without the design sense.
But seriously, Adrian makes an excellent point. And the large profit
margins wouldn’t be quite so galling, if only the publishers were able
to provide competent and helpful administrative support; but in my
recent experience, not-for-profit scientific society journals are
actually providing better experiences for reviewers and authors than
the big commercial ones.
Pat
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