Editors Quit Academic Publishing Company

Drama at Elsevier

[kilodeltaeight]

Painfully accurate, but entirely true. The fact all medical journals aren’t open access and non profit is criminal.

[ozboz]

We need an Elsevier vs united health showdown, with the CEOs out-eviling each other

[DenisJava]

Was thrilled when I heard that all those editors quit! And I thought of you. Now here you are confirming my faith in your commitment to the cause.

[glitchysquid]

Publishing company, "They're just gonna make knowledge free???"
Everyone, "Yes, as a matter of fact there has been institutions dedicated to free information, it's called a library."
Pushing company, (Gasps in loss revenue)

[helenadurst]

Now I know why my professor wont let me publish in any Elsevier journal

[RosaryOfSpies]

I'm part of a group of researchers who started our own open access non-profit journal that we're all volunteering to create haha. All medical, science and social science journals should be open access! This was awesome and so, so painfully true. Laughed at the impact factor and 'I didn't say it was a good dream' 😂

[HarryPotterFreak]

That bit ended and I immediately got hit with an ad starting with, "Dreaming of becoming a doctor?"
😂😅😂

[WolfLykaios]

As someone not in the medical profession, I want to say thank you to all of the editors that are doing this and allowing the knowledge be freely accessible as I would never have access to it otherwise.

[zygnard]

I thanks to the doc for doing this public journals have evolved into money monsters making it impossible for researchers to advance quickly on their job. I hope that this movement could be a base for the next generations of researches.

[andreamiller]

This hurts my science-loving heart but the truth is so well depicted!

[ilajoie]

It's good to see that even Elsevier acknowledges that Jonathan is the best and has a framed picture of him in their offices

[txjayhwk]

Attitudes like the “Academic Dream” he described are one of many reasons Im so glad I got out of academia after my PhD. Another painfully accurate skit from Dr. G

[tobiaspape]

Proud to serve an diamond open access journal. (I.e. no fees for neither authors nor readers)

[izzybeth]

"it's a billion-dollar corporation, somebody's gotta get exploited." the unvarnished truth

[lewisroach]

This sounds similar to stuff like changing a few words and pictures in a 400 page manual for a subject to force students to spend several hundred on the up to date version each year on the off chance that the change is actually relevant, preventing passing down of second hand subject manuals, to say nothing of the academic journals you need to use for citation in essays. You have to buy dozens of books for a literature course yet that somehow seems more accessible.

[whatshappening]

I love the videos about the journals and I've learned so much about the things doctors go through thanks to your channel. Keep it up and thank you!

[dianaburn]

As a researcher, I appreciate this video (cries)

[corgiw]

Excellently scathing. You're like The Onion when you do these bits, only very specifically focussed.

[NorseForse]

YAAASSSS! Yes yes yes yes… a thousand times YAASSSS!!
I read all about the editors quitting en masse and my FIRST thought was “I hope Dr Glauc makes a video about this!”
Then my SECOND thought was… “CONGRATS TO ALL THE JOURNAL EDITORS QUITTING *AND* starting their OWN non-profit publication!!! 👊🎉👍👊
That’s the BIGGEST step in the right direction for academic publishing *ever.*
Keep. 👏F**king. 👏Going.👏

[SpartacusSF]

A very succinct summary of the academic “dream”