Editors Quit Academic Publishing Company
About this video
A publishing executive learns that all the editors of one of his company’s journals have quit over high open-access charges and the treatment of researchers. Flanary has the executive defend the model while his subordinate lays out the publisher’s large profits and the prospect of editors leaving to start nonprofit, free journals. The sketch portrays academic publishing as a system where researchers pay to surrender their work and editors are beginning to walk away from it.
Key takeaways
- Flanary portrays academic publishers as profiting from researcher-paid open access while owning the work
- The sketch argues editors quit over exploitation of authors and unpaid reviewers
- His point is that nonprofit open-access journals are the alternative the editors choose
Episode details: published May 14, 2023 · 225.8K views · 1:48 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Everything described is Dr. Glaucomflecken’s (Will Flanary, MD) satire and commentary on the US medical system, attributed to him as satire — his sketches are comedy, not documentation, and this is not medical advice.
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