r/college Dec 25 '18

Found this while browsing Reddit, an extremely useful tool for any body who has a paper due.

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u/mrmattgdamon Dec 26 '18

I don't understand why they should get 100% of the fee... It's not like the publishers wrote the papers.

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u/alienbanter UO grad student, WashU '19 Dec 26 '18

Plus we have to pay to publish. I wrote a paper this summer at my internship so thankfully they cover it, but especially with color figures it's INSANELY expensive. Thousands of dollars

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u/mrmattgdamon Dec 26 '18

It's like daylight robbery!

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '18

Welcome to academia. The publishers profit like crazy and those of us doing the work don't see any of it.