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Just a note that we have asked the European Commission to investigate Elsevier for abuse of a dominant market position: https://zenodo.org/record/1472045, and also now Education International (32 million members, 400 member organisations) are taking the fight to them through academic unions. https://bit.ly/2PPjwRK

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I wish people would work on the systemic issues of access, rather than acting like Elsevier is somehow uniquely responsible. If Elsevier disappeared overnight, there would still be the other 84% of the market.

Efforts like the above just lead to the open access movement getting co-opted by anti-capitalists, which hurts progress.

Overview of distribution of costs by 5 main publishers -- Elsevier share is larger than all other 4 large publishers combined:

https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/B14-12-Lidiia-Bor...

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