Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers

• Simon van Bellen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: simon.van.bellen@erudit.org

  Affiliations Chaire UNESCO sur la Science Ouverte, École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Consortium Érudit, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1698-8530

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• Juan Pablo Alperin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Publishing, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9344-7439

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• Vincent Larivière

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chaire UNESCO sur la Science Ouverte, École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Consortium Érudit, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

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