It's a lawsuit that will probably not amount to anything, but that's more a statement about the legal stsrem than an assessment of the merits of the case. Lucina Uddin (the "Scholar Plaintiff") "brings this
antitrust class action to challenge collusion among the world's six largest for-profit publishers of peer-reviewed scholarly journals," alleging that the six have formed a "cartel" through the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM). "Members agree to follow STM's policies, which state that peer review is "volunteer work" and that researchers cannot submit their manuscripts to more than one journal at a time or freely share their work under review."
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