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Open Access Publishing: Go For Green, Not Gold

Posted at 11:40AM Saturday 23 Feb 2013

The world of academic journal publishing looks as if it is now about to undergo the digital shock-treatment. Academics have long grumbled about the handful of profit-making publishers – often, very handsome profits – (Elsevier; Palgrave-Macmillan; SAGE; Springer; Taylor and Francis; Wiley-Blackwell) which dominate the journal market. The Economist recently said that these firms possess "that rare thing in the media industry: a licence to print money". That's because they can get their authors and editors to work for nothing, and then sell the finished products back to the universities that mostly employed the authors and editors in the first place.

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