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Peer-Reviewed Paywalls

Peer-Reviewed Paywalls

By Desmond, Claire

Published by epubli

English 2026 ISBN 9783565314072
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About this book

Imagine an industry where the government funds the creation of the product, highly trained experts provide the quality control for free, and the final result is sold back to the government at a staggering profit margin of nearly forty percent. This is not a theoretical scam; it is the $25 billion global academic publishing industry. A handful of massive corporations control the flow of human knowledge, locking life-saving research behind exorbitant paywalls. This book exposes the bizarre and highly lucrative economics of companies like Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. It traces the history of how scientific journals transitioned from humble society newsletters into ruthless profit engines that hold university libraries hostage. The text dissects the prestigious illusion of the "impact factor" and how it forces scientists to voluntarily hand over their copyrights. Understand the vicious cycle of academic prestige and corporate profiteering. You will learn how the open-access movement is fighting to dismantle this invisible monopoly and why liberating scientific data is the most critical economic and moral battle of the digital age.

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Peer-Reviewed Paywalls is available as eBook at 9 online bookshops. Bookshops carrying it include Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Bookshop Uruguay.

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