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	<description>A Spectre is Haunting Academic Publishing</description>
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		<title>Concentration in the publishing business</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stefan Müller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post tries to collect information about the concentration of market power with science publishers. If you want to contribute, please leave comments stating who bought whom in which year and a URL giving proof about the deal, in case &#8230; <a href="https://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2020/10/26/concentration-in-the-publishing-business/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Zombie Lingua, Elsevier and what profit-oriented publishers are good for</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stefan Müller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 07:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some weeks ago, I was asked to review a paper for Lingua. Lingua is an Elsevier journal. A special one: five years ago the complete board of Lingua and the running editors resigned and recreated the journal with the new &#8230; <a href="https://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2020/10/03/zombie-lingua-elsevier-and-what-profit-oriented-publishers-are-good-for/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the zombies: How we might get out of the science publication disaster</title>
		<link>https://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2017/08/28/beyond-the-zombies-how-we-might-get-out-of-the-science-publication-disaster/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Haspelmath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By now, everyone knows that scholarly publication is serious trouble. The actual costs of disseminating content have plummeted drastically, and yet academic institutions are paying more and more to the commercial publishers. This feels deeply wrong – as if Facebook &#8230; <a href="https://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2017/08/28/beyond-the-zombies-how-we-might-get-out-of-the-science-publication-disaster/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What should I do with my draft paper? Hide it, upload to Academia, or upload to Zenodo?</title>
		<link>https://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2017/02/24/what-should-what-do-i-do-with-my-draft-paper-hide-it-upload-to-academia-or-upload-to-zenodo/</link>
					<comments>https://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2017/02/24/what-should-what-do-i-do-with-my-draft-paper-hide-it-upload-to-academia-or-upload-to-zenodo/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Haspelmath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the 20th century, when I had a draft paper, I might make a few copies and share them with close colleagues, but the main action would be send it anonymously to a journal – in paper. In the modern &#8230; <a href="https://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2017/02/24/what-should-what-do-i-do-with-my-draft-paper-hide-it-upload-to-academia-or-upload-to-zenodo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We don’t need open access, but scholar-owned publication brands</title>
		<link>https://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2017/02/21/we-dont-need-open-access-but-scholar-owned-publication-brands/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Haspelmath]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 06:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Suppose that each time you have your bike repaired, the bike shop raises its prices for the other customers, and for you, too – and the other bike shops are not differemt. In such an absurd situation, wouldn’t you rather &#8230; <a href="https://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/2017/02/21/we-dont-need-open-access-but-scholar-owned-publication-brands/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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