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The New York Times has an opinion piece about Open Access publishing. It starts with the case of Alexandra Elbakyan a guerilla open access activist who is on the lam from the US government acting on behalf of the copyright cartel. Pricing and other restrictions put many journals out of reach of all but the few researchers at major, well-funded universities in developed nations. The large publishing companies usually have profit margins over 30% and subscription prices have been rising twice as fast as the price of health care, which itself is priced insanely, over the past two decades, so there appears to be a real scandal there. Several options are available including pre-print repositories and various open access journals. The latter require the author to pay up front for publishing. However, the real onus lies on the communities' leaders, like heads of institutions and presidents of universities, who are in a position to change which journals are perceived as high-impact.
Edit: Alexandra Elbakyan founded Sci-Hub in 2011.
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Tuesday March 15 2016, @01:56AM
SJWs have positioned themselves to decide [youtube.com] acceptance of papers to medical journals and have been censoring anything that talks about "sex differences" for decades. [youtube.com]
So either there are censors on the journal from the movement or the journal is simple bowing to external pressure (or else..). Time to put some pressure on the journal?
Either way the journal(s) have exposed themselves to have an attack surface. So perhaps another location for publishing can fill the gap or opportunity? (like Sci-Hub [wikipedia.org] or ArXiv [wikipedia.org])
Let's hope this is another real good nail in this non-scientific garbage arbitrators existence.