In case we had forgotten, the authors of , The Drain of Scientific Publishing (12 page PDF) remind us that " academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it" as well as to the wider community that funded it. Publishers have subverted open access mandates through the application of publication fees (aka 'article processing fees' (APC)) to earn even more than before. "APCs have exacerbated the distortions of commercial publishing. Whereas the Open Access movement aimed to make knowledge freely accessible, publishers found ways to shift paywalls from readers to authors." Via Octopus monthly updates.
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