The Drain of Scientific Publishing details very clearly how for-profit publishers making >30% profit margins have corrupted any solution the research community has attempted.
Let's cut ourselves free.
Drain:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain:
bit.ly/StrainQSS
Oligopoly:
bit.ly/OligSciPub
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The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
