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Re:Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals by untilHellbanned on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:36PM (#11676821)
Agree completely. The government needs to act. As a professor in molecular biology I would be happy with the banning of publishing in for-profit journals.
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Re:Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals by dnautics on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:57PM (#11677608)
It's not the for profit part that's the problem. It's the closed access part that is. Afaik, AAAS and ACS run science and all the chemistry journals respectively and they're both nonprofits with frustrating paywalls.

conversely if a for profit could effectively monetize a 100% open access journal, it would be totally fine.

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