From 319bbc1d3918e56626076a9dcd3aa96a0d9987e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jalmari Tuominen Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:38:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos --- README.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bd240c6..340db9c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Scientific publishing is broken. -Universities worldwide pay over $2.5B every year to the six biggest publishing houses just to get their articles published [(1)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16551). This means that (after funding the actual research work) publicly funded research institutions pay on average $2,044 for each open access article just to get the results published [(2)](https://github.com/OpenAPC/openapc-de?tab=readme-ov-file). Peer-revieww, the only meaningful step in the publishing process, is done by researcher for free. Meanwhile, the publishing houses produce nothing else but money to their owners with profit margins close to 40 % which aligns with companies such as Google and Microsoft [(3)](https://tidsskriftet.no/en/2020/08/kronikk/money-behind-academic-publishing). +Universities worldwide pay over $2.5B every year to the six biggest publishing houses just to get their articles published [(1)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16551). This means that (after funding the actual research work) publicly funded research institutions pay on average $2,044 for each open access article just to get the results published [(2)](https://github.com/OpenAPC/openapc-de?tab=readme-ov-file). Peer-review, the only meaningful step in the publishing process, is done by researchers for free. Meanwhile, the publishing houses produce nothing else but money to their owners with profit margins close to 40 % which aligns with companies such as Google and Microsoft [(3)](https://tidsskriftet.no/en/2020/08/kronikk/money-behind-academic-publishing). It does not have to be this way. @@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ Professor Niku Oksala ## References + (1) Haustein, S., Schares, E., Alperin, J. P., Hare, M., Butler, L.-A., & Schönfelder, N. (2024). Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.16551 (2) Broschinski, C., jbartlewski, Jahn, N., Porquet, T., Sikora, A., JohanCFroberg, Peil, V., Tullney, M., Moch, M., VuK – Open Access Brandenburg, Clemens, Hahn, U., Becker, H.-G., Hamalainen, V., Daniel, Medizinische Bibliothek der Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Voigt, M., Labastida, I., … Strömert, P. (2026). *OpenAPC/openapc-de: ASH Berlin TA data 2024* (v5.1.9-8-5) [Software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19238155 -(3) Hagve, M. (2020). The money behind academic publishing. *Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening*, *140*(11). https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.20.0118 - +(3) Hagve, M. (2020). The money behind academic publishing. *Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening*, *140*(11). https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.20.0118 \ No newline at end of file