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<div>Indeed, great article. Building on this, a reflection: whatever one thinks of the ethics and legality of Elsevier's lawsuit against SciHub founder Alexandra Elbakyan, it appears to me that she has demonstrated that a Kazhakstani graduate student can provide
the bulk of the important services contributed by Elsevier (hosting and serving up articles) at no cost to users, and apparently off the side of her desk. If this is correct, this says something about the real necessary marginal cost for providing this service,
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<div>Considering that academics do the real work of academic publishing - writing and peer review - if the traditional value add of publishers in storing and disseminating articles, necessary in the print and early electronic ages, can now be done for next
to nothing, surely we can devise a new system that retains or strengthens quality at a fraction of the cost?</div>
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<div>On 2017-06-27, at 11:38 AM, "Reckling, Falk" <<a href="mailto:Falk.Reckling@fwf.ac.at">Falk.Reckling@fwf.ac.at</a>></div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Indeed Eric, astonishingbackground story, almost all what you have to know about the publishing industry and very well written,<br>
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Von: Éric Archambault<<a href="mailto:eric.archambault@science-metrix.com">mailto:eric.archambault@science-metrix.com</a>><br>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Juni 2017 09:26<br>
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Interesting article in the Guardian that spells out the role played by Robert Maxwell in the development of the scholarly journal industry.<br>
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