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That's $9 billion just for the articles where researchers paid for open access. Publishers have claimed billions more for largely publicly-funded research that the public cannot access without absurdly expensive subscriptions or access through institutions.

Nicholas A. Christakis@nachristakis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible. This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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