#Pay4Reviews: Academic publishers should pay scientists for peer-review
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Ethical Issues, Legal Issues, Science Policy
- Keywords
- peer review, open access, open science, academic publishers, sci-hub
- Copyright
- © 2019 Jaffé
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. #Pay4Reviews: Academic publishers should pay scientists for peer-review. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27573v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27573v1
Abstract
The exploitation of scientists by traditional academic publishers is widespread, as they monopolize the right to distribute scientific papers, strip authors of their own article’s copyrights, and charge them if they wish to read papers from their peers. It is then up to scientists to free themselves (and their papers) from the tyranny of academic publishers by refusing to perform free peer-reviews for them and by publishing open-access when possible. Starved of peer-reviewers, academic publishers would have nothing to publish, while subscription fees are doomed to disappear in an age of open-science. This system would also create incentives to perform peer-review: #Pay4Reviews
Author Comment
The ideas presented in this article belong to the author and do not reflect the opinion of the institutions where he is affiliated.