Terrific piece and so true. Thanks for putting this out there. Hope you are safe and well. I am a former subscriber to SciAm. So sorry to also read about Stinky, a tough loss.
Thank you for sharing this. Springer Nature, meanwhile, has raised fees charged to authors to publish while some universities use publication in Nature journals as requirement for tenure. So, we see that even the 'reputable' publishers are abandoning channels that could make science accessible to the broader public while squeezing young scientists for all the money they can drain from them.
I believe this is happening throughout publishing to books, too. If sales can’t justify the cost of potential litigation from the regime then the book is silently buried. You can’t prove it or fight it as an author because everyone will blame the book for failing and the author for failing to launch it.
Terrific piece and so true. Thanks for putting this out there. Hope you are safe and well. I am a former subscriber to SciAm. So sorry to also read about Stinky, a tough loss.
He was a good boy and a good editor.
Thank you for sharing this. Springer Nature, meanwhile, has raised fees charged to authors to publish while some universities use publication in Nature journals as requirement for tenure. So, we see that even the 'reputable' publishers are abandoning channels that could make science accessible to the broader public while squeezing young scientists for all the money they can drain from them.
I believe this is happening throughout publishing to books, too. If sales can’t justify the cost of potential litigation from the regime then the book is silently buried. You can’t prove it or fight it as an author because everyone will blame the book for failing and the author for failing to launch it.
It is not like the main services of Springer Nature are getting any better either.
Ugh! Just evil! They're trying to help kill science!
This is my favorite magazine :(