Unlocking Secrets: What Open Science Pioneers Wish They Knew Before Today’s Reality Hit
Scholarly publishing is an outstandingly profitable business where publishers make money by adding value to the submitted manuscripts. (These manuscripts magically appear on publishers’ portals or editors’ tables, because the academic world continuously insists on its researchers in doing so). Publishers’ value addition takes place by maintaining infrastructure for manuscript submission to paper publication; by (literally) arranging ‘blind dates’ between the peer reviewers and the authors; providing all sorts of cosmetic (editorial) inputs (massive alterations are always done by the authors); and constructing the so-called prestige of a journal/publishers which essentially determines if an open access journal can get away with either charging US$ 200 or US$ 12,000 per article as article processing charges (APCs).
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