October 12, 2025Open Access

What exactly is the problem with Elsevier and co?

Key Points

Researchers express increasing frustration over access restrictions imposed by legacy publishers, which affects their work.
Academic librarians voice concerns about the high costs of journal subscriptions, limiting access to critical resources.
The analysis considers various factors contributing to the dissatisfaction with corporations controlling scholarly output.
Access to research is vital for academic progress, but legacy publishers have created barriers that hinder this.

Abstract

For a long while, there has been a lot of anger among researchers and academic librarians towards the legacy publishers: the big corporations that control access to most of the world's scholarly output. But what exactly is the problem? Let's briefly consider several possibilities, and see if we can figure out which ones really matter.

What exactly is the problem with Elsevier and co?

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