Let It Flow: The Monopolization of Academic Content Providers and How It Threatens the Democratization of Information: The Serials Librarian: Vol 0, No 0

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Summary:

Abstract:  The monopolization of academic journal publishers concentrates power and valuable information into the hands of a few players in the marketplace. It has detrimental effects on how information flows and is accessed. This, in turn, has profound effects on how a nation progresses. Placed in a theoretical framework, utilizing the marketplace of ideas and the economies that coincide, this article takes a look at the history of Elsevier in order to chart this course toward monopolization. It exhibits the effect it has already had on the academic community, while offering two models of Open Access as a much sounder option.

Link:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0361526X.2018.1556189

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oa.new oa.publishers oa.monopoly oa.obstacles oa.elsevier oa.paywalled oa.history_of

Date tagged:

03/28/2019, 11:02

Date published:

03/28/2019, 07:03