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  • Academic journals are a lucrative scam

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 19 20:09:46 2024
    Academic journals are a lucrative scam - and we're determined to
    change that

    Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins
    that rival Google's. So we decided to start our own

    Arash Abizadeh is a philosopher and the Angus professor of
    political science at McGill University, Canada

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Jul 20 11:44:19 2024
    On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, JAB wrote:

    Academic journals are a lucrative scam - and we're determined to
    change that

    Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins
    that rival Google's. So we decided to start our own

    Arash Abizadeh is a philosopher and the Angus professor of
    political science at McGill University, Canada

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions


    Thank god for Annas archive and all the other book torrent sites out
    there! =)

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