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Since the 1990s, some academic netizens have predicted that open access will upend scholarly journal publishing, yet an oligopoly still dominates the $25-billion industry. Orvium, a European start-up, ...

Patrick Burns does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to “intelligent machines and algorithms that can reason and adapt ...