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Stephen Downes

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Matthew Cheney calls this a "fierce" article, and the title alone makes it hard to disagree. " The commercial stranglehold on academic publishing is doing considerable damage to our intellectual and scientific culture. As disinformation and propaganda spread freely online, genuine research and scholarship remains gated and prohibitively expensive." Or as I say (a lot): democracy dies behind a paywall.

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