1/ From the law firm bringing the #antitrust lawsuit against six academic #publishers.
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/academic-journals/
The suit alleges three #anticompetitive practices:
1. agreeing to "fix the price…at zero" for the #labor of authors and peer reviewers;
2. agreeing not to compete for manuscripts, forcing authors to submit to one journal at a time;
3. agreeing to prohibit authors from sharing their work while under peer review, "a process that often takes over a year".
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