Lawsuit highlights how prestige drives academic publishing

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Lawsuit highlights how prestige drives academic publishing Scientists write publications for free, review them for free, and then commercial publishers sell their work to universities for a big profit. Now, a psychologist in the US is suing the biggest scientific publishers. The lawsuit accuses the six largest academic publishers of colluding to create a business model that diverts money from scientific research “into their pockets.”

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