Platforms and Profits | Library Babel Fish
lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-05-18
Summary:
"I woke up on Tuesday to find that one of the oldest open archives of scholarship, SSRN, had been sold to Elsevier. I had to check the date – is this a joke? No, Elsevier, the largest and least loved of the big five commercial journal publishers, wants to own not just content but the process of creating it."