Academic journals and the price of knowledge - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 1 views
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Roland Gesthuizen on 10 Jun 12"Librarians and academics all over the world are up in arms. They're angry and they're making their displeasure known-they're as mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore! Why? They're protesting over the cost of academic journals and access to knowledge. And the focus of their anger is the handful of international publishing companies who control the lion's share of the academic publishing market."