The
Dutch Publisher Elsevier is famous worldwide for their remarkable publications
within the field of Discrete Mathematics, Advances in Mathematics, Mathematics
Journals, Journal of Algebra, Journal of Geometry and a lot more. For a long
time, they have been bitterly criticized for some of their business practices.
One
of the major reasons for criticism and controversy is the higher prices they
charge for some of their mathematics journals. Elsevier follows a practice identified
as bundling in which rather than giving the libraries the options of journals
of their own choice for subscription, they proffer a fixed bundle of journal subscriptions
which is often of no value to the libraries and subscribers. They do not have a
second alternative for making their selection, either they have to select from
that group or nothing at all.
In
cases where the libraries find it essential to subscribe to certain Elsevier
journals, they have been forced to subscribe them at very high subscription
rates. If libraries attempt to discuss better deals, Elsevier is known to cut
off the access to their entire journal series.
Bentham
Science publisher controversy
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