The case for competition in academic publishing

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Publishers of academic journals are "the most ruthless capitalists in the western world," George Monbiot writes in the Guardian. "The material they publish was commissioned and funded not by them but by us, through government research grants and academic stipends. But to see it, we must pay again, and through the nose," Monbiot says. More views from Martin Robbins, Noah Gray and Ben Goldacre.

September 10, 2011

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