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    The Real Cost of Knowledge

    The University of California has broken with one of the world’s largest academic publishers. Is this the end of a very profitable business model?
    by Sarah Zhang Mar 04, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Lenny Ignelzi / AP

    This past Thursday, the University of California, one of the largest research institutions in the world, blew up negotiations with Elsevier, one of the largest publishers of research articles in the world. The university would no longer pay Elsevier millions of dollars a year to subscribe to its journals. It simply walked away.

    Not so long ago, blowing off a publisher as important as Elsevier would have been unthinkable. But academics have been joining in an open revolt against Elsevier’s extremely. In December 2016, stopped paying for Elsevier’s journals. In 2018, the same thing happened in and then .

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