'Publication Laundering': How Publishers Happily Accept Fake And Nonsense Conference Papers In The Pursuit Of Profits
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Techdirt has written many times about the dysfunctional state of academic publishing. The main issue is that academics do most of the work required to publish a paper, but the publishers reap most of the benefit. Profit margins are extremely high for top publishers — typically 30-40%. And yet academics are routinely forbidden from sharing […]
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