Money, time, trust, control: how commercial publishers drain science

For nearly three quarters of a century commercial academic publishers have played a dominant role in the dissemination of scholarly research. Building on recent research into the evolving business models from journal subscriptions to open access, Dan Brockington, Aileen Fyfe and Stefanie Haustein and colleagues argue that commercial publishing is becoming increasingly detached from the needs and interests of researchers and now serve profits, not science.