A federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit filed by researchers alleging that major corporate publishers colluded to control the publishing market... Lucina Uddin, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles,* filed the lawsuit in 2024 against the six largest for-profit publishers of peer-reviewed academic journals—Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature—and their trade association, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). The lawsuit argued that the publishers violated the Sherman Act, a federal antitrust law, by having researchers peer review articles for free, forbidding the submission of manuscripts to more than one journal at a time, and preventing authors from freely discussing submitted manuscripts.
To support that argument, plaintiffs pointed to STM’s International Ethical Principles for Scholarly Publication, which references those practices. But Hector Gonzalez, a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, said that was insufficient evidence of anti-trust violation... Gonzalez also declined to allow the plaintiffs to update the suit, writing that “further amendment would not change the result.”
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/02/06/antitrust-lawsuit-against-academic-publishers-dismissed.
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