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Academics, rise! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by Maroon to c/[email protected]
 

It's time for us academics to stop being pawns of these corporate journals and demand our fair share of the profits they earn from our labour and services.

  • We are not their "content creators"
  • Access and dissemination of our research cannot be held hostage by these corpos.
  • Service to these journals is not service to the community.

I've posted this in my institute. I hope you share and post this in yours and spread the word.

P.S: As you can see, I am no designer! But I hope the message is clear. Thanks for the feedback. I will work on further drafts, and hope to work with the community to mobilise this action.

... and yes, it was made using LaTeX. :-)

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[–] JackLSauce 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Should probably post a second draft with help from the marketing students...

I thought somebody posted a resumé to Lemmy

[–] Rolando 5 points 19 hours ago

It looks like LaTeX. Academics are familiar with it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The graphic design on this made me think it was a D&D spell or item description at first.

I guess it would be a +2 to intelligence if academic papers were more readily accessible.

[–] Rolando 1 points 19 hours ago

This is like the Wizards of the Coast OGL fuckery, but worse.