The Drain of Scientific Publishing
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2025-11-19 v2
Abstract
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and Universities, to lead the drive to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.04820,
title = {The Drain of Scientific Publishing},
author = {Fernanda Beigel and Dan Brockington and Paolo Crosetto and Gemma Derrick and Aileen Fyfe and Pablo Gomez Barreiro and Mark A. Hanson and Stefanie Haustein and Vincent Larivière and Christine Noe and Stephen Pinfield and James Wilsdon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.04820},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
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