<div dir="ltr">«Christmas is over» is part of the title of a statement from LERU (League of European Research Universities). Here, LERU laments the large sums going from research to publishers instead of being used to further research.<br><br>It is difficult to disagree with LERU in that this situation, where publishers reap huge profits from selling science’s own work back to science, represents a problem for science. And a statement pointing to this problem is, of course, one small step towards rectifying it. An unacknowledged problem will stay unsolved. <b><font color="#ff0000">But how have publishers managed to get this stranglehold on science?</font></b><div><br><a href="http://blog.stockholmuniversitypress.se/2015/12/15/large-sums-are-going-from-research-to-publishers-instead-of-being-used-to-further-research-what-can-we-do-about-it/">http://blog.stockholmuniversitypress.se/2015/12/15/large-sums-are-going-from-research-to-publishers-instead-of-being-used-to-further-research-what-can-we-do-about-it/</a></div></div>