This International Worker's Day, let's once again recall that commercial academic publishing runs on unpaid labour (by multiple people, not just authors).
But also: "For the Dutch universities alone, the amount paid to commercial publishers is estimated to be about €50 – 60 million annually." 🤯
Antonia Waltermann 🟥
How do publishers extract money, free labor, and data from universities?
Read it in this open-access blog: socialsciencespace.com/2026/04/how-...
Based on chapter 9 of this open-access book: doi.org/10.66742/VPY...
