The Chronicle of Higher Education

Understanding the Economic Burden of Scholarly Publishing

By CATHY N. DAVIDSON

By now, everyone has heard of "the crisis in scholarly publishing." You've read that phrase in articles, heard it at meetings, and seen it in mailings you've received from your professional associations, your departments, your publishers. ... The crisis is real. And it signals a major threat to scholarly communication as we know it.

Yet it...

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