[Irtalk] The Web Will Either Kill Science Journals or Save Them | WIRED

[Hilton Gibson]

Many researchers have long believed publishing power has evolved to lie in
the hands of a few big companies, like, say, Reed-Elsevier and Springer.
But none had ever done a study to see if that was true.

Vincent Larivière, a researcher at the University of Montreal’s School of
Library and Information Science, decided to do what any good scientist
does: test the hypothesis. Turns out the hunch was right. “*In fact, we did
not think things would be this bad*,” he says.

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/web-will-either-kill-science-journals-save/
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