International academic publishers (like Elsevier) earn big money while limiting the access to research results. This piece is a good summary of that problem.
No country can afford to abandon this system alone, but we should all be working to dismantle it.
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The Feudal Lords of Science • SftP Magazine
Scientific publishing functions less as a service to science and more as a feudal rent extraction system.Editor (Science for the People Magazine)
