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My alma mater will drop subscription to Elsevier in 2017, stating that they have been increasing the fee 4% each year.
by jack1243star 10y ago
My alma mater will drop subscription to Elsevier in 2017, stating that they have been increasing the fee 4% each year.
- a3_nm 10y agoI think this is great news. More unsubscriptions are a good thing because (1.) publishers get less money; (2.) researchers in these universities realize that subscriptions should not be taken for granted, in the frequent case where they have never thought about the issue; (3.) these researchers realize that not having subscriptions isn't such a big deal (you can find most recent papers online anyway, or ask your friends, the authors, use Sci-Hub, etc.); and (4.) researchers who don't publish open-access version of their works realize that they are losing potential readers in other universities (and citations, if they care about this).