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A UCLA professor has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six major academic journal publishers, including Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wolters Kluwer. The lawsuit, filed by law firm Lieff Cabraser in the federal district court in New York on September 12, alleges that these publishers violated antitrust laws by barring simultaneous submissions to multiple journals and coercing peer reviewers to work without pay. The suit claims that these practices unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that could have funded scientific research. The legal action highlights a three-part scheme involving unpaid peer review, non-competitive submission policies, and the appropriation of authors' work. The publishers are described as 'rent-seeking rackets' by critics.
Antitrust lawsuit alleges academic peer reviewers are not paid for work due to collective price fixing among publishers. Follow this suit. It’s wild https://t.co/bKKOrXbejR
This is how Antitrust lawsuits should be used . Antitrust lawsuit filed against academic journals, arguing they collude to only let people submit to one journal at a time and suppress scientific findings. -------- The three primary complaints 1. Unpaid Peer Review: Publishers… https://t.co/6vVswLuZb0 https://t.co/nH0F2ajCSg
Antitrust lawsuit filed against academic journals, arguing they collude to only let people submit to one journal at a time and suppress scientific findings. Now this is how antitrust should be used. To go after actual cartels, not just punish success like the anti-tech crusade. https://t.co/tkWdVSLx1H
