A Dive Into the World of Academic Publishing - Copybuzz

"End of May, researchers from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project on the editorial and commercial history of the world’s oldest-surviving scholarly journal published a briefing paper on ‘untangling academic publishing’, which presents ‘a history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research’. See also this op-ed on the paper in the Guardian by one of the co-authors, Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry), Professor of structural biology at Imperial College London. In this op-ed Professor Curry denounces the profit margins of publishers, such as Elsevier, which are well in excess of 30%. So, it should come as no surprise that this was met with retaliation from Elsevier’s side."