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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by 33550336@lemmy.world to c/academia@mander.xyz
 

As I read in the Wiki, "Researchers have criticized Elsevier for its high profit margins and copyright practices. The company had a reported profit before tax of £2.295 billion with an adjusted operating margin of 33.1% in 2023. Much of the research that Elsevier publishes is publicly funded; its high costs have led to accusations of rent-seeking, boycotts against them, and the rise of alternate avenues for publication and access, such as preprint servers and shadow libraries."

Are there other high-score but more ethical publishers? Is Springer Nature better in this sense? I mean the subscription publishing options, not a paid open-access.

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[–] 33550336@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I was asking rather about submission of an article. I see no problem in reading the Elsevier articles from scihub.