Francisco Javier Bonilla-Escobar, Colombia writes
"I think it is a problem of the system more than just the libraries."
If libraries would not spend so much money on subscriptions and APCs how could the system stay as expensive as it is?
"We all contribute to keeping that system alive."
Keeping it alive is different from keeping it expensive.
"The problem is way too big because the whole academic system is predatory."
It is unclear to me what you mean by that.
"These companies go at faster speeds than we can go to educate people to prevent this to keep growing. For example, few days ago I was watching over and over in Youtube the opportunity to become an Editor in Frontiers (they even have the money to put adds on youtube),"
an incredibly expensive publisher ...
"as they "provide a platform of journals" for people to help science being editors (unpaid) and enhance their curriculums."
Lobby your library not to pay APCs to publishers that don't pay reviewers.
"What we can do?"
Enhance your curriculum by becoming a Biomed News selector instead, see http://biomed.news. (disclosure: I created this system). We give our product away for free, see http://biomed.news/reports.
"I try to educate and publish in Journals that do not require payments, but for some of those Journals the visibility is not high enough or the standards are way too high as their demand to publish is that high too."
As long as your journal is in PubMed, Biomed News acts as a levelling the playing field because the input to the selector does not take account of journal reputation.
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Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel
HIFA profile: Thomas Krichel is Founder of the Open Library Society, United States of America. Professional interests: See my homepage at http://openlib.org/home/krichel Email address: krichel AT openlib.org
