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Erik Schnetter Sep 16, 2024

A long shot, maybe, but not without merit. A lawsuit against six academic publishers alleging that the defendants:

a) refuse to compensate scientists for their manuscripts and review
b) refuse to compete by implementing Ingelfinger Rule
c) prohibit authors from sharing their work

https://www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/academic-journals/

It may be worth considering filing an Amicus Brief with the numerous EU Commission market analyses that confirm the monopoly status of these publishers.

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Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation

Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer, on behalf of a proposed class of scientists and scholars

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Hendrik Weimer Sep 16, 2024

@brembs I don't know. Many nonprofit scientific societies are also affected by this suit through their membership in STM: https://www.stm-assoc.org/membership-2/our-members/

If anything, putting more financial pressure on publishers by having to pay reviewers is going to push the balance even further towards for-profit companies. I also think simultaneous submission allowing authors to cherry-pick where they encounter the softest review is a terrible idea.

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Our Members - STM

STM is the leading global trade association for academic and professional publishers. It has over 140 members in 21 countries who each year collectively publish nearly 66% of all journal articles and tens of thousands of monographs and reference works. STM members include learned societies, university presses, private companies, new starts and established players. If...

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Björn Brembs Sep 16, 2024

@hweimer

Yes, those concerns were also among my first ones. See,. e.g.:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2023/02/how-about-paying-extra-for-peer-review/

It all depends on the mitigations they would be asking for. I see any weakening of the monopoly position of the journals (corporate or societal) as positive in principle, as it would bring more force to procurement rules, see, e.g.:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2022/03/why-publication-services-must-not-be-negotiated/

By leveraging procurement rules in this way may bean important step to finally replace all journals:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230206

How about paying extra for peer-review?

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