I had to use freedom of information laws to determine how much universities in New Zealand spend on journal subscriptions to give researchers and students access to the latest research – and I found they paid almost US$15 million last year to just 4 publishers. There are additional costs, too. Paywalls
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He presided as 'reader' over the shoals of expectant manuscripts piling up daily at the publishers—starting out at Fisher Unwin, doing the business for Heinemann and Duckworth, putting in long stints at Dent and ending up at Cape. Jonathan Cape headhunted Garnett for his new firm in 1921 as 'the
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