The Entire System Of Academic Publishing Is Broken. Here’s One Researcher’s Plan To Fix It

“Giant, corporate publishers with racketeering business practices and profit margins that exceed Apple’s treat life-saving research as a private commodity to be sold at exorbitant profits. … [Worse,] Elsevier has sued Sci-Hub, a website that provides free, easy access to 67 million research articles. … If we diversify our thinking away from the superficial field of journals and articles, and instead focus on the power of networked technologies, we can see all sorts of innovative models for scholarly communication.”