A fine piece in First Monday looks at how open source and open science are converging. Among other things, the article explains one of the many reasons the business of academic journal publishing can be so frustrating for scholars. As in other concentrated industries, business models do not allow for meeting some customer demands (such as for more open and
easy access to scholarship), even though desired services or products could be delivered for a vanishingly minimal additional cost.
Unacknowledged convergence of open source, open access, and open science:
The great increase in journal subscription prices over the last two decades, largely as a result of corporate concentration in scholarly publishing, has led to what economists would term the "dead–weight burden of monopoly," in which "some people’s desires will remain unsatisfied even though they could have been fulfilled at virtually no additional cost"
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