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Why universities get forced into journal bundles

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If a university library just wants access to one highly respected scientific journal, publishers will flatly refuse. Instead, they force the institution to buy a massive, multi-million dollar bundle filled with hundreds of completely irrelevant, third-tier magazines that no student will ever read. It is pure monopoly extortion wrapped in academia.

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