What open access hasn’t closed

The for-profit journal giants are still making a motza. A new study shows how

The big five publishers have adapted their publishing models to keep making money, as Stefanie Haustein (Uni Ottawa)  and colleagues explain in a NEW PAPER.*

“Although OA was  meant to remove inequities and break the oligopoly’s control of the traditional scholarly market,  these publishers have found a new revenue by equating (open access) with article processing charges and are now exerting their power in this system,” they write.