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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

As far as I know, the big ones charge very high processing fees

[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Processing fees"

Ensuring the Docx file shows up right in PDF format.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well except a lot of the time it's LaTeX, and the journal already makes the authors check their tex files work with the journal's article class.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Depends entirely on the field. None of the (psych/behavior) journals I'm familiar with ask for things besides DOCX.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I also don’t know how they come up with that BS

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think in computer science it’s normal to have to attend a conference to present your paper if it’s accepted. And they charge a higher fee to presenters than to regular attendees.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So the people providing the content that everyone shows up for get charged more, man that's a weird business model. Like running a cable network that charges channels to be on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think it all comes around to how the funds are distributed.

Researcher gets grants from the federal government to enable their work. They do the work, write the paper, get it accepted to a conference. They're required to attend and present to get it published. So they have an excuse to buy flights, hotels, expense food all on government dime. And the conference is put on, in part, by other researchers, who aren't going to use their own funds to put on the event. So they charge people to attend, and those who want to get published have the largest incentive to attend, so they can be charged the most.

I only did 2 years of graduate research and attended a handful of conferences (unpublished unfortunately)... I could have this wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is the way, at least in the computer science field.