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University libraries are supported in part by taxpayer money. Which largely goes to pay for journal subscriptions (whose costs are rising far faster than inflat
by jhbadger 10y ago
University libraries are supported in part by taxpayer money. Which largely goes to pay for journal subscriptions (whose costs are rising far faster than inflation). So the taxpayer-money->private publisher conduit is a very real thing in our current system.
- merraksh 10y agoI know money is money, but that tax-payer money I was mentioning is the research funds themselves, not the money used to pay subscription.