Any time you encounter a shitty, outrageous racket that’s stable over long timescales, chances are you’re looking at a collective action problem. Certainly, that’s the underlying pathology that preserves the scholarly publishing scam, which is one of the most grotesque, wasteful, disgusting frauds in our modern world (and that’s saying something, because the field is crowded with many contenders).
🤔 Pluralistic: MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (16 Aug 2024)
Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)