• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    I get that it’s a fee to safely archive and copy papers properly, with maybe access control and logging. I don’t see the fees updating with the times , even if they’re still maintaining archives with paper copies as well.

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      Elsevier and Nature Group are for-profit. That is the problem. Once profit is involved, morals and ideals go out the window

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        And more specifically, a bunch of parasites that demand to be paid a hundred times what the people who do all work start crowding around the trough, even before the stockholders get their cut.