Elsevier Scientific Document Company copyrights scientific papers and sells subscriptions. From Wikipedia: "In recent years the subscription rates charged by the company for its journals have been criticised; some very large journals (those with more than 5000 articles) charge subscription prices as high as $14,000, far above average.[7] The company has been criticised not only by advocates of a switch to the open-access publication model, but also by universities whose library budgets make it difficult for them to afford current journal prices." In the pipeline: Full Screen
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