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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-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).
Universities worldwide pay over $2.5B every year to the six biggest publishing houses in article processing charges [(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.