05: Helps to preserve an outdated publication process

Some argument that it helps preserve the traditional (“outdated”?) publication process, preserving large profit margins.

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05: Helps to preserve an outdated publication process
01: Research funding may be diverted towards publication costs
02: Public funds for payments of APCs are not infinite
03: Bureaucratic gatekeepers to the research publication process
04: Moral objections to re-use of research outputs under CC-BY
06: May result in lower funding for university libraries
07: Private researchers may find ‘pay to publish’ prohibitive
08: Potential for double-dipping’ in relation to hybrid journals
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