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Steve, Doug, et al., it's easy to snark, but I also know you're both evidence-driven people. Do you have a rational basis for understanding the innovation that wouldn't have happened without capital investment in #scholcomm?
Actually, public funding via university salaries and grants pay for research. Until 50 years ago research and other societies ran journals. They sold to big publishers when managing the increased academic output expanded during the early Cold War. In the 80s publishers ...
Conglomerates and started increasing subscription costs by 10-20% PER YEAR for a decade increase of 170%. Most of that went to profit bc we all know you don’t pay for content. When most journals stopped making print copies your overhead went down significantly but prices didn’t.
So actually... you have created a second scholarly communications crisis bc libraries can’t keep up with fees meanwhile you are one of the most profitable sectors of publishing. Also bc of paywalls searching most lib cats is a headache with 4 links just to get to a PDF.
Seriously There are literally dozens of articles about big publishers are hurting not helping. This is a daily topic of convo around the lunch table in academic libraries. I’m honestly surprised you don’t realize that.
There are some things I understand better from my perspective, so you may from yours, but I definitely understand access problems. Going digital most certainly didn't lower overhead. Technology is expensive!
Heres one thing clear from my perspective (as a researcher coming from the third world): You are a salaried mouthpiece trying to save face for an antiquated system that not even the wealthiest research institutions in the world deem worthwhile anymore.
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