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A comment on Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematical community. Parent comment

Re:Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematica... by lshepstone on Saturday May 05, 2012 @06:10PM (#3933435)
The choice of Stellenbosch in South Africa as an example is perhaps not ideal. While SA may be a third world country in parts, it is very "first-world" in others and has a GDP greater than Denmark, Finland, Singapore and Ireland. Stellenbosch is also one of the countries premier Universities. I am not sure we'd be as surprised if Universities from those countries were chosen as an example.

I'm sure it's more of a case of Elsevier charging whatever it could to each university.

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Re:Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematica... by Havoc on Sunday May 06, 2012 @10:08AM (#3935147)
> has a GDP greater than Denmark, Finland, Singapore and Ireland.

That says absolutely nothing. You'd need to look at it on a GDP per person basis. There all those countries you listed are far ahead of South Africa, in some cases by a factor of 10x.

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