Document (#40712)

Author

Buranyi, S.

Title

Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?

Source

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science

Year

2017

Abstract

It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google - and it was created by one of Britain's most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell. "Even scientists who are fighting for reform are often not aware of the roots of the system: how, in the boom years after the second world war, entrepreneurs built fortunes by taking publishing out of the hands of scientists and expanding the business on a previously unimaginable scale. And no one was more transformative and ingenious than Robert Maxwell, who turned scientific journals into a spectacular money-making machine that bankrolled his rise in British society."

Theme

Elektronisches Publizieren

Object

Elsevier

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