Dr. Banjadebaje

Question is not offensive. Some people doesn't seem to understand how free labor is being used to make money—another form of slavery. I hope this will become clear to people sooner or later.

Walter and @Buffy, It does not need to be lucrative or employment. Both, paying in the form of APCs or cash may be acceptable unless there is a cap enforced by journals/regulatory body on how many papers one person can review in a year. I don't think anyone can make living out of it but reviewers should receive a compensation in someway such that no one is working free in business setting.

This is fundamental economics. We academicians are divided thinking we don’t benefit if we don’t support corporate publishers. That is not true. we can benefit in many ways without supporting corporate publishers—by doing enough work to advance science, academic works and demanding publishers to pay to do more work.

This is simply not acceptable to me. Science can advance in many ways. There are millions of ways we can just benefit ourself, advance science, but not submit ourself to such corporate publishers. This can be done by doing enough work to advance science and benefit academics but not benefit publishers—especially not for free.

And I am very clear, I am not submitting to corporate publishers even it hurts writers including myself. Because, it’s our responsibility to make those are taking unnecessary advantages of experts. We seems to working towards tenure, advancing science and many more (you name it). But in fact we are submitting ourself and our hard earned knowledge for free to those who can profit from it

I replied yes, I do—sometime more sometime less but it balances out. I am not entitled to your opinion.

I answered your curiosity multiple times and I don’t need your backing up article to understand things that can be understood using common sense.

@BryanKrause Read my comments again and again if you don’t understand what I said. Why I should submit to corporate publishers so they become burden on me? It doesn’t make sense to me and you can choose to do whatever you want. We shall stop here since you are advocating for corporate publishers and I am refusing to do so while compensating for my share of burden I put on them. Simple.

@BryanKrause, you can tell whatever you want and your comment is offensive. I do enough job so I don’t be burden to other people. On the flip the side, other people and corporate publishers are being burden on me for not paying for my work. How about that?

@BryanKrause Not necessarily and may be! I am simply refusing to be used as a free resources by million dollar business owning publishing houses. I do enough free service where science can advance and I benefit in someway while doing so. But not wanting to work for corporate publishers for free. I don’t count how many I reviewed if papers are in my interest. Most of the time I am reviewing more than I need to.

@bryanKrause, yes I do. I didn’t say, I won’t review paper at all. I still review paper that are extremely in my interest, or sent by editors I know. I benefit in someway by doing so. I used to review more papers than now because I wanted to build my CV and profile, which I no longer need to actively pursue. My argument is simple—if all benefit from the process, this process will be smoother and all can benefit.

@Buffy Not tangibly. All these things can happen by making articles public in many ways. For example, there are so many government hosted open source unpaid directory which are reliable (I know some from my field, but not disclosing here). Often people attach social and emotional value to unpaid and volunteering work but I don't believe I am volunteering by working unpaid is someone else is getting financial benefit and becoming rich by using my free work. I would review million papers for free if published paper would have been freely accessible to everyone. Unfortunately, it's not!

@Buffy Not selfish really. Who is profiting from this? Business houses and publishers for reviewers "being generous". It's business and let's make it a business--there is nothing selfish about it and there is no need to be generous about it too.