October 2, 2025Open Access

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

Puntos clave

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.

Resumen

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.

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Martin Paul Eve (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de70f583cbc991d0a236d7 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59348/5v7tf-kvc28

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