The Day Academia was Broken

A growing number of researchers are unsatisfied with the way science works. The pressure to publish big is imminent and there is a current crisis to keep people in academia. This video is about the day academia was broken.
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Robert Maxwell is an entrepeneur who reshaped scientific publishing. In the 1950s, he offered the best services to enable efficient publishing. Maxwell's publishing company increased rapidly in size and he made unprecedented profits. Maxwell also started to charge fees to access journals. At the same time, publising became more and more selective. As a result, the h-index and the impact factor were developed to assess the productivity of scientists and journals. Although these numbers have some important implications, they might have also broken academia. Now, scientists need to follow trending research topics in order to secure funding and positions. As a result, some crucial research topics might be underappreciated.
In response to the growing costs of scientific publishing, Alexandra Elbakyan founded sci-hub, an illegal platform that shares scientific content. For her invention, Elbakyan faces copyright sources. Other institutions have started to negotiate "open-access" as the standard model which means that articles need to be accessible to everyone. These problems have intensified in the past years, these problems have only instensified - let's see how the story goes on!
References: docs.google.com/document/d/1-...
00:00-0:48 Intro
0:48- 6:37 The endless Stream of Money in Academia
6:37-7:22 Big Science Blockbusters
7:22-8:56 How Academia was Broken
8:56-13:20 Should Knowledge be free?
About Clemens Steinek:
CLEMENS STEINEK is a PhD student/youtuber (Sciencerely) who is currently conducting stem cell research in Germany.

[@telotawa]

alexandra elbakyan deserves a nobel prize

[@staffanholmqvist2168]

Shes likely contributed most to any of the fields. Including Litterature and that other prize to money

[@DDHS_Podcast]

Really nice video. Are you planing to make other videos about the broken system in academia? I think it is important to highlight what else is going wrong. Thanks for your effort. Looking forward seeing your next video.

[@LolSumor]

I think there kind of is a flaw with the idea of buying a place in some journal for them to get the copyright of the work. And also profit from free labour from sharpest of experts, who kind of are coerced to peer review without compensation.

[@staffanholmqvist2168]

Great work keeping this story up to date in the public space! That there is no major documentary (TMK) on the topic since 2018 is outrageous. Science is funded almost exclusively by tax-money and charities. That media do not report on this every week is sad. If you need ideas on further topics for future videos, dont hesitate to send me a PM. One obvious is "kit-ificcation" and black boxes in medical science, we do no longer know what we are doing as these reactions are hidden by IP.

[@rbk306]

I appreciate your content.

[@davidcrouch5190]

Well stated Clemens Steinek!

[@DeconvertedMan]

Nonsense wants to win. We must fight it.

[@deadboybeats1]

Do a video on the Dr Macchiarini scandal

[@Sciencerely]

That's a good idea, I'll add it to my list!

[@esgee3829]

Ren wrote Money Game trilogy about science.

[@esgee3829]

also, the issues described herein along with the behaviours it encourages among some scientists and sometimes against other scientists (theft, sabotage, etc), were what led me to not pursue a phd in a applied science. perhaps my own path would have been different had the bold people like Elbakyan come before I made my decision.

[@rakshithm1257]

All hail Sci Hub!

[@EvonneLindiwe]

Sigh 😔🧐