The other day, I wrote a post about how to make your past, present, and future research all Open Access for free in a way that is legal and compliant with publisher policies. After a quick chat with some colleagues, I’ve tried to update the infographic to make it a bit more user friendly and […]
Publishing Open Access can cost a lot of money. Some journals charge up to $6000 for a single article, called an APC or article-processing charge. While researchers themselves rarely actually have to foot these bills, as their institutes of funders pay on their behalf, this sort of ‘pay to publish’ model for Open Access creates […]
In every coffee break conversation, you hear murmurs of a ‘broken academic system’. Hallways whisper secret conversations about the latest case of professional abuse, the tenured professor still writing papers on a type-writer, and the grad student that mysteriously disappeared just 6 months in. I’m going to try and outline here what I have seen in […]