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> Elsevier's also by far the shittiest publisher in their practices

Yeah. Interesting: the longest part of the Wikipedia article used to be Criticism & Controversies, but it has been restructured quite a bit. Still lists many despicable acts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier

Ceterum censeo Elsevier(um) esse delendum.

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The whole article is criticisms and controversies, I love it.

I’m surprised the article doesn’t have a tag for point of view, although it’s hard to disagree with the claims. Still, it’s one of the most hostile articles I think I’ve read on Wikipedia.

And if you read the Talk page, you'll realise that several Elsevier employees have been updating the article. That it is still so hostile to Elsevier is then maybe an indication of how despicable the company really is.

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