The leading US academic library organizations are building the Information Access Alliance to try to prevent a mon/oligopoly from dominating the research journal industry.
Over the past two decades, increased concentration in the publishing industry has been accompanied by significant escalation in the price of serials publications, eroding libraries' ability to provide users with the publications they need. Nowhere does this seem more troublesome than in the market for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals and legal serial publications where pricing, as well as marketing practices for electronic publications, threatens library budgets and ultimately the widespread availability of important writings to the public.
When you add in the increasing tendency for drug manufacturers and other corporate entities to get their studies published--and critical studies censored--we begin to see the end of freedom of the press.
More reasons to attend the National Conference on Media Reform in Madison this fall.
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