The High Cost of Knowledge Monopoly

18/10/2022 40 min Temporada 3 Episodio 3
The High Cost of Knowledge Monopoly

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Over the past 20 years, the academic publishing market has undergone changes that have led us to a juncture where power is concentrated in the hands of a handful of big companies.To help us understand how this came to be and its implications, we are joined today by Claudio Aspesi, a leading market analyst for the academic publishing market. Claudio is a consultant at SPARC, and has authored several reports about the market power and consolidation of the largest commercial players in this space. Resources:SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry : Implications for Academic Institutionshttps://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1100&context=scholcom