It's about time. I hope we see a lot more of this.

6 major academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit

The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done “tremendous damage to science and the public interest,” the complaint alleged.

The publishers allegedly agreed to make peer reviewing an unpaid job, prevent academics from submitting manuscripts to more than one journal at a time, and bar them from freely sharing their findings during the lengthy peer review process.

From https://www.highereddive.com/news/6-major-academic-publishers-face-antitrust-lawsuit/727106/

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