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The Scholarly Publishing Guide

COMMERCIAL JOURNAL PUBLISHING (THE LEGACY MODEL)

...publishers have now established an incredibly lucrative business model based on taking advantage of scientists to create content for them for free, and then selling it to back to them once it's published.
- Fiona MacDonald
Or: Why the traditional, commercial, 'articles-behind-a-paywall' journal model is in the middle of being phased out....