&gt; I, for one, think that the Bloomberg reign -of-terror can&#x27;t end soon enough. They&#x27;re as bad as Elsevier in monopolizing information.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this opinion, and want to.<p>Bloomberg work with 3rd party data that&#x27;s licensed not only to them, but multiple other platforms too.  Elsevier monopolise sources so they&#x27;re the only publisher.<p>A lot of data on Bloomberg is public, just organised in a really familiar (to Bloomberg users) UI.<p>Getting into detail: A lot of data in markets is simply inaccessible on any platform (hidden orders, etc), and some data services try to discover this, but that&#x27;s not like an academic journal monopolising papers.