Working on a manuscript submission to a scientific journal recently. Their website is full of statements about how submissions must adhere to "their principles" of open acces, open source, transparency in funding and conflicts of interest, and on and on.
At the end of all that, they're happy to charge me $4000 USD just for the privilege of hosting my paper and telling me it's "quality research published in their prestigious journal". They do none of the funding, none of the research, none of the peer review, none of the advocacy. They pidgeon-hole me into using expensive, closed-source, soul-sucking software for writing such that institutions literally have no choice but to be captured. They display my work in ways that are no more innovative than print.
The parasitic monopoly of scientific publishing is overripe for disruption by something superior like #nostr.
