Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier
I always wonder why some disciplines are more open than others [0]. As someone in biology: the state of publication is very sad. We have to pay thousands to _submit_ a manuscript, and then:<p>- get rejected right away, or<p>- the manuscript gets distributed to fellow scientists (who reviews for free). The reviews get collected and manuscript rejected, or<p>- we get a chance to address the reviewer&#x27;s concern, resubmit and gets rejected, or<p>- The editor does some proof-reading and publish the paper behide a paywall. I lose all the rights and I may need to ask the journal for permission to use part of it in my thesis, otherwise I risk plagirizing my own writing.<p>Sometimes when I read preprints in computer science&#x2F;physics&#x2F;bioinformatics etc. I feel in those disciplines researchers are a big happy family, and we biologists are locked in a prisoner&#x27;s dilemma because we can&#x27;t communicate. Then we fight each other and the publication companies are selling tickets for others to watch.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idea.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;04&#x2F;04&#x2F;fees-and-other-business-models-fund-open-access-journals&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idea.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;04&#x2F;04&#x2F;fees-and-other-business-...</a>