(Handle) This is one of two publications recommended by Gary Hall on the occasion of a conference on "how implementing the Finch Review on Open Access Publishing will affect researchers and learned societies in the arts, humanities and social sciences." The article by David Harvie (et.al.) writes about "the profits and practices of commercial journal publishers and argues for an appropriate response from the academic community." The range of respinse includes a full-scale boycott. The article attacks publishers not only for high subscription rates but also in their relocation to tax havens in Swiss cantons such as Zug. Simon Lilley, in How Publishers Feather Their Nests on Open Access to Public Money, raises similar concerns.
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