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Author Björn Brembs

or: how journals are like 1930s Rolls Royce Phantom IIs Recently, the “German Science and Humanities Council” (Wissenschaftsrat) has issued their “Recommendations on the Transformation of Academic Publishing: Towards Open Access”. On page 33 they write that increasing the competition between publishers is an explicit goal of current transformative agreements: This emphasis on competition refers back to the simple fact