| Abstract
| - Publishers and librarians are the usual culprits blamed for the “journals crisis”, typically defined as anever-tightening spiral of increasing serial prices and decreasing number of subscribers. An alternativeviewpoint is expressed in this articlethe author community bears the brunt of the blame for this situation.The glut of published articles, the surplus of journals, and the growing publication rate per academic chemistdrive the crisis. Therefore, any global publication paradigm change must originate from within the authorcommunity.
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