Cat Hicks on Nostr: you can also think about what PLACES buy in to a publisher (eg, "my university has ...

you can also think about what PLACES buy in to a publisher (eg, "my university has access to all of the Elsevier journals") as a key business model. This tiered access to science has been at the center of why many of us think it is an unethical model for things like public-funded research (which is a huge amount of research). Some govt grants require open access to the papers resulting from funding. But scholars are in a bind bc the publishers control the most prestigious outlets