Unis spend millions accessing publicly funded research | Scoop News
Amyluv's bookmarks 2017-12-14
Summary:
"University research is generally funded from the public purse. The results, however, are published in peer-reviewed academic journals, many of which charge subscription fees.
I had to use freedom of information laws to determine how much universities in New Zealand spend on journal subscriptions to give researchers and students access to the latest research - and I found they paid almost US$15 million last year to just four publishers."