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US universities could create enough pressure on Elsevier to make them seriously reconsider their practices.
by stackedinserter 2y ago
US universities could create enough pressure on Elsevier to make them seriously reconsider their practices.
- 9question1 2y agoMaking Elsevier reconsider its practices is a self-defeating goal. Pay-per-access research publishing should be driven out of business. The majority of institutions funding the actual research being done are publicly funded or receive large public tax breaks, so the resulting research should be publicly accessible, and the peer review process should be managed and funded within a similar network of institutions, not by an oligarchy of rent-seeking private entities.
- treyd 2y agoCan universities just do a buy-out of Elsevier and wind it down? Surely they really have the upper hand here.
- lelanthran 2y agoThere is only one solution to abusive monopolies: government intervention. In this case, government funds can come with a contract that states all published results of that research must, after publication, be available for free. This effectively means no changes to the current contracts Elsevier has with authors and with readers; all that happens is that government law trumps private contracts, so the universities/authors are free to distribute copies after publication. Right now, the contracts forbid that.
- amadeuspagel 2y agoThey certainly can't coordinate to create pressure on Elsevier without violating antitrust law.