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Cancelling with the world’s largest scholarly publisher: lessons from the Swedish experience of having no access to Elsevier Cover

Cancelling with the world’s largest scholarly publisher: lessons from the Swedish experience of having no access to Elsevier

Open Access
|Apr 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.507 | Journal eISSN: 2048-7754
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 3, 2020
Accepted on: Feb 20, 2020
Published on: Apr 22, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

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