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"The publishers allegedly agreed to make peer reviewing an unpaid job, prevent academics from submitting manuscripts to more than one journal at a time, and bar them from freely sharing their findings during the lengthy peer review process." #HigherEd #publishing #academia #research
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6 major academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit

The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done "tremendous damage to science and the public interest,” the complaint alleged.
Laura Spitalniak (Higher Ed Dive)
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in reply to Dr Ian McCormick

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And there is library damage. Exorbitant fees for "must have" journals drain the budget. It's been going on for a long time. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…

The costs and benefits of library site licenses to academic journals - PMC

Scientific publishing is rapidly shifting from a paper-based system to one of predominantly electronic distribution, in which universities purchase site licenses for online access to journal contents. Will these changes necessarily benefit the ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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