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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....

Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History
Short article by Jason Schmitt, Writer and Associate Professor of Communication & Media at Clarkson University, published on the HuffPost Contributor platform.
Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research
One writer's rant about 'the broken economics of academic publishing."
Revisiting: How Traditional Publishing Works
Blog post briefly describing the economic drivers behind the traditional journal publishing model.
These Five Companies Control More Than Half of Academic Publishing
Short article about the largest academic publishing companies by an independently run science news site, itself funded by display ads (no sponsored articles).