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The Cost of Knowledge

Protest movement against research publishing house Elsevier and for open science
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The Cost of Knowledge

Summary

The Cost of Knowledge is a protest[1]. It draws 36 Wikipedia views per month (protest category, ranking #100 of 475).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Cost of Knowledge's image is recorded as Boycott Elsevier 2.png[3].
  • The Cost of Knowledge's instance of is recorded as protest[4].
  • The Cost of Knowledge's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0j3cwt1[5].
  • The Cost of Knowledge's official website is recorded as http://thecostofknowledge.com/[6].
  • The Cost of Knowledge's main subject is recorded as Elsevier[7].
  • The Cost of Knowledge's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Open access[8].

Why It Matters

The Cost of Knowledge draws 36 Wikipedia views per month (protest category, ranking #100 of 475).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). The Cost of Knowledge. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-cost-of-knowledge
MLA “The Cost of Knowledge.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-cost-of-knowledge.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_the-cost-of-knowledge_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{The Cost of Knowledge}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-cost-of-knowledge}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): The Cost of Knowledge — https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-cost-of-knowledge (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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