fabfelder, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom ACS can easily one-up this. Submit your supplementary cover and if it is accepted pay 1'425$ as a member or 1'650$ as a non-member. It gets you one high-quality 18” x 24” poster and outreach: https://pubs.acs.org/page/4authors/promotion/journal-cover-image.html

ct_bergstrom, 8 months ago

@fabfelder Holy shit I was sure you were just making things up….

meredithw, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom @fabfelder WTF?!

sls, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom I hope they'll sell me an NFT of the cover.

jmbuhr, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom only a matter of time until they start selling NFTs...

Dlenares, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom I don't mind it. If they would make the article free to read and free to publish and find alternate revenue streams.

NIH_LLAMAS, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom It's not even done well. I would be tempted to guess it's just a screenshot of the index page in a mobile browser if not for the fact that it's crooked.

rooneymcnibnug, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom they are the fucking worst

jason, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom uh the baseline of that text isn’t even aligned to the frame? I don’t think this is a lazy CG thing either. What is up with this image/why would it cause someone to buy one? Weird as hell.

tiago, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom Vanity journals indeed.

eliocamp, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom It really is embarrassing and, IMHO, this really destroys any of the small amount of credibility they had.

jalfro, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom I'm not surprised. Academic publishers are among the biggest grifters going.

pencilears, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom people usually just frame the article itself. They'll do the cover if they're feeling fancy, but a frame shop can absolutely make any magazine page look good.

carolh1, 8 months ago

@ct_bergstrom Sad and disgusting simultaneously.