And before someone gets up in arms about the research papers, the researchers don’t get paid by the journals for publishing with them. In fact, the researchers need to pay the journal to publish, and then the journal turns around and charges people to read it.

What you're describing here is called predatory publishing and is not the norm. It's the "fake news" of scientific journals. I'm not "up in arms" about the original topic of making info available to the public whatsoever, just wanted to correct this part.

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Some respected, high impact journals also charge for submitting.

Lower quality journals charge more and almost guarantee publication.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What you're describing here is called predatory publishing and is not the norm.

No, predatory publishing "is an exploitative academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors while only superficially checking articles for quality and legitimacy" without real peer review. For context reviewers aren't paid by high impact journals either.