Ondets rod: Hemmelighedskræmmeri

The scientific publishers have become a para-academic money machine that not only milks research for billions, but also promotes questionable research practices. How did it go so wrong?

The 00s were a formative period for much of the turmoil that resides in academia today. It was in the '00s that the New Public Management (NPM) became the norm at the European universities.
On the surface, it looks innocent. But it has created a breeding ground for some very sturdy weeds. For the shift of governing paradigm at the universities, led to the emergence of an industry of privately owned companies whose mission was to "help" the universities and their researchers to increase productivity. We call this the para-academic industry.