Tag: Open Access
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Should authors be paying for publishing their research?
As someone on the publishing side of research, it is hard to escape the mistrust many researchers have towards publishers. The question that often comes up is, “Why do we as researchers have to pay publishers money for publishing? After all, we are the ones who have worked hard for the content and it is…
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Research publishing- Is it all about the money?
One of the views I often hear from editors and researchers is how publishers are there only to fleece money out of researchers for the research that they have worked hard on. This monstrous image of Publishing companies has been building over decades and most communities of authors and researchers have grudgingly accepted this as…