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I wish people would work on the systemic issues of access, rather than acting like Elsevier is somehow uniquely responsible. If Elsevier disappeared overnight,
by MrGunn 8y ago
I wish people would work on the systemic issues of access, rather than acting like Elsevier is somehow uniquely responsible. If Elsevier disappeared overnight, there would still be the other 84% of the market.
Efforts like the above just lead to the open access movement getting co-opted by anti-capitalists, which hurts progress.
- dmitriz 8y agoOverview of distribution of costs by 5 main publishers -- Elsevier share is larger than all other 4 large publishers combined: https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/B14-12-Lidiia-Borell-Damian.pdf https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/B14-12-Lidiia-Bor...