don't forget JSTOR, which is not even a publishing house (and
advertises itself as a non-profit).....its just a database....and
Lexis-Nexis, which is owned by Elsevier....
*Having bought the rights to the academic research, JSTOR digitizes
the material and sells the content back to the university libraries.
To recoup their costs of leasing the information from the publishers,
the academic search engines use a subscription model to restrict the
content to those who can pay the hefty price tag. A substantial part
of the university library budget is devoted towards subscriptions to
those databases. The UC San Diego Libraries report that 65% of their
total budget goes towards getting access to JSTOR and other databases.
To get access to the Arts and Sciences collection at JSTOR -- only one
of the many databases and collections of information -- university
libraries must pay a one time charge of $45,000 and then $8,500 every
year after that.*
<http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/locked-in-the-ivory-tower-why-jstor-imprisons-academic-research/251649/>
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