I was drawing wider parallels with processes for public contracts outside scholarly publishing, the "Big four" style government contracts. An endless stream of

I was drawing wider parallels with processes for public contracts outside scholarly publishing, the "Big four" style government contracts. An endless stream of stories and comments appear here. Eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1740428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1740428 Edit: not comparing Elsevier to McKinsey per se, but the power imbalance of proprietary vs open.