Science should not pay for overpaid CEOs of academic publishers

14 november 2018 | In 2015 Gerard Meijer closed the first open access (offsetting) deals with the major scientific publishers as chief negotiator for the Dutch Association of Universities (VSNU). As his fellow scientists now oppose the new 'Plan S' he looks on with surprise and disappointments. According to him, researchers often fail to grasp the fact that in the current system the cost of publishing is simply too high.