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The High Cost of Knowledge Monopoly

October 18, 2022 • Knowledge Equity Lab • Season 3 • Episode 3

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Over the past 20 years, the academic publishing market has undergone changes that have led us to a juncture where power is concentrated in the hands of a handful of big companies.

To help us understand how this came to be and its implications, we are joined today by Claudio Aspesi, a leading market analyst for the academic publishing market. Claudio is a consultant at SPARC, and has authored several reports about the market power and consolidation of the largest commercial players in this space.

Resources:

SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry : Implications for Academic Institutions
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1100&context=scholcom