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# Sivu: Scientific publishing as it should be
Scientific publishing is broken. 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). At the same time it is impossible to say what is it exactly that universities get in return for this spending. The only meaningful output in the publication process is peer-review which is currently performed by researches themselves -- free of charge. 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). At the same time it is impossible to say what is it exactly that universities get in return for this spending. The only meaningful output in the publication process is peer-review which is currently performed by researches themselves -- free of charge. 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).
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(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 (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