"These Five Corporations Control Academic Publishing"
"Five corporations publish more than half of all scientific papers, dominating fields like chemistry and psychology"
http://www.vocativ.com/culture/science/five-corporations-control-academic-publishing/
"Scientific research—from baby steps in basic science to revolutionary breakthroughs—is effectively controlled by five major corporations.
An analysis of the 45 million documents indexed in the Web of Science, and recently published in PLoS, reveals that Reed-Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis and Sage published more than half of all academic papers in the peer-reviewed literature in 2013*. The study suggests it may be time for scientists to move away from major for-profit publishing houses, and take their research elsewhere."
I must agree with that assessment. Science is already becoming synonymous with secular humanism, and unless it becomes an open community again it will get worse.
*"The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era"
