julesh on Nostr: The ACM, the professional body that nominally represents my field, are in the future ...
The ACM, the professional body that nominally represents my field, are in the future moving their journals from a pay-to-read to pay-to-publish model. To be clear, the pledge which I am a signatory of,
https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/
considers pay-to-publish journals to be equally as illegitimate as pay-to-read, and so I will continue not reviewing for ACM journals.
The total costs of running a small journal are of the order of a few hundred dollars per year - see npub1k80jln9xge2zkk7uh8u3v7ul53t0m0kytr0lw2e0842gg4kc7ydqnj2j0x (npub1k80…2j0x)' blog post
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2018/06/04/a-new-journal-in-combinatorics/
- and the running costs of the applied category theory journal Compositionality are in the same ballpark (which were covered for the first few years of its existence by a small philanthropic grant)
I have a blog post that records my important thoughts on this stuff:
https://julesh.com/2021/02/16/free-publishing/
https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/
considers pay-to-publish journals to be equally as illegitimate as pay-to-read, and so I will continue not reviewing for ACM journals.
The total costs of running a small journal are of the order of a few hundred dollars per year - see npub1k80jln9xge2zkk7uh8u3v7ul53t0m0kytr0lw2e0842gg4kc7ydqnj2j0x (npub1k80…2j0x)' blog post
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2018/06/04/a-new-journal-in-combinatorics/
- and the running costs of the applied category theory journal Compositionality are in the same ballpark (which were covered for the first few years of its existence by a small philanthropic grant)
I have a blog post that records my important thoughts on this stuff:
https://julesh.com/2021/02/16/free-publishing/