On the costs of scholarly communications and the discourse of 'fairness'

Key Points

Big publishers have remained unyielding in their profit margins, with rates over 35%, impacting library budgets.
The discourse of fairness in the academic realm hints at longstanding tensions between libraries and large publishers.
As for-profit publishers generate billions in revenue, a reassessment of their fairness towards libraries has gained momentum.
Discussion on fairness has arisen due to stagnant library budgets over 30 years amidst rising publisher profits.

Abstract

A discourse of 'fairness' has emerged in open-access circles in recent years. It has come from a sense that big, for-profit publishers have not played 'fairly' with libraries over the past 30 years. It is unsurprising. These large publishers make margins of 35%+ on billions of dollars of revenue, even while library budgets stagnate.

On the costs of scholarly communications and the discourse of 'fairness'

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