Sunday, March 3, 2013

How Corporations Score Big Profits By Limiting Access To Publicly Funded Academic Research

How Corporations Score Big Profits By Limiting Access To Publicly Funded Academic Research: Here’s how the academic publishing industry works: Academics do research (frequently supported by public funds) and submit that research to journals, often paying “$600-$2,000 to either the publisher or the academic society that owns the journal” for the privilege of publication. Then journals send the research back out to other academics to be reviewed (typically [...]/p