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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读讲义 Academic publishing: Paper trails The quantity of scientific papers has increased rapidly. Quality may not have The Economist Science & technology Nov 20, 2024 | 9260words | ★ ★★ ★☆ Scientific publishing has long been a money-printing operation, with many big publishing houses reporting profit margins of between 30% and 40% year after year. The long-standing business model is watertight. Articles, which are written and reviewed by academics, are locked behind paywalls. Universities and research institutions then pay through the nose for access to them via subscriptions that cost millions of dollars a year. In the past decade, however, this model has been challenged by a rise in funders mandating that the research they pay for must be free for anyone to read. A host of publishers have, therefore, adopted a new business model to enable “open access”: levying an article-processing charge—ranging from $1,000 t
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