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Can universities just do a buy-out of Elsevier and wind it down? Surely they really have the upper hand here.
by treyd 2y ago
Can 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.