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Dr Benoît Jones

@jesterchen @RustyBertrand
I agree with the sentiment. The problem is that managing the review process, and then copy editing and producing the proofs, and then providing the platform or printing the journal is a job of work that needs to be paid for. So money is needed for that, unless you are happy for papers to be full of spelling and grammar errors, have poor quality images and be laid out in a basic way. Academic reviewers and editors will not do this, it's too time-consuming.

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Dr Benoît Jones

@jesterchen @RustyBertrand

I am totally in favour of journals being 100% open access, but we need to acknowledge that there is a cost someone has to pay.

Rusty Bertrand

@huxley @jesterchen
Pay who? No one gets paid. Publishers? Middlemen?
Fuck that!
Billionaires can pay.

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@huxley @jesterchen @RustyBertrand You say that, but I've never heard of paid review work. I've never had a journal's copy editors not ruin my papers and have to have my advisor yell at them to stop breaking everything. Spelling and grammar errors are rife in published works regardless. So I disagree, no money is needed for their crap services.

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