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Elsevier’s increasing control over scholarly infrastructure, and how funders should fix this
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| Date: | 2016-05-22 15:43:35 |
| Blog: | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week  |
| URL: | https://svpow.com/2016/05/22/elseviers-increasing-control-over-scholarly-infrastructure-and-how-funders-should-fix-this/ |
Summary:
In a recent blog-post, Kevin Smith tells it like it is: legacy publishers are tightening their grip in an attempt to control scholarly communications. “The same five or six major publishers who dominate the market for scholarly journals are engaged in a race to capture the terms of and platforms for scholarly sharing”, says Smith. […]Content analysis:
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