Economics of open-access publishing

October 24, 2011 § Leave a comment

Elsevier alone takes out of academia — not its turnover but its profits, which are given to shareholders who have nothing to do with scholarly work — is enough to fund every research article in every field in the world as open access at PLoS ONE’s rate.

A must read, here too. Via Hacker News.

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