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some corrections to the pledge
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### What if this project fails, for whatever reason?
While this initiative can fail by not reaching the threshold, it will be a message to the scientific publishing community that researchers are trying to take action. It seems that researchers are failing abysmally in taking collective action, be it for improving work conditions, or for improving the way we spend public resources. Even a failed attempt at collective action would signal a change in the spirit of the times.

##<a name="probleman">Problem analysiss</a>
## Problem analysis <a name="probleman"></a>
We believe that the current academic publishing system goes against the scientific process, by hampering the efficiency, responsibility, and legitimacy of academic research, because of the following reasons:

It relies on a payment scheme that disproportionately favors the profiteering of commercial publishers (e.g., [see van Noorden, 2013](https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=THE+TRUE+COST+OF+SCIENCE+PUBLISHING&btnG=#d=gs_cit&t=1670335357417&u=%2Fscholar%3Fq%3Dinfo%3AFP6Y4PzaQPAJ%3Ascholar.google.com%2F%26output%3Dcite%26scirp%3D0%26hl%3Den)). Open access publishing, in specific, “has not lived up to the expectation that it would reverse the flow of public money to private publishers—that is, [it is] effectively subsidizing publishers with tax money.” (Essl et al., 2020, p. 202). Universities, which are publicly funded, both produce and peer review academic articles themselves whilst also paying out both to disseminate and access academic articles, diverting funds from research to private companies. Various sources have reported that the costs for publishers are in the region of $300 per article (and articles seem to be hosted by Archiv for $10 per article), yet publishers obtain a revenue of around $5000 per article (see van Noorden, 2013). Universities lose money to publishers through expensive article processing charges (APCs) and/or journal subscriptions, despite providing publishers with their products and quality control.
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