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Techdirt has written many times about the dysfunctional state of academic
publishing. The main issue is that academics do most of the work required to
publish a paper, but the publishers reap most of the benefit. Profit margins
are extremely high for top publishers — typically 30-40%. And yet academics are
routinely forbidden from sharing their own papers, because they are pressured
to assign copyright in them to the publisher, which uses the control that
affords to block wider access to knowledge.
An eye-opening post by James Heathers on
Medium reveals that the greed and
rot in the world of academic publishing goes even deeper. This time, it
involves the world of “proceedings” journals. These purport to be a collection
of papers presented at a conference. It is the conference that applies to
publish the proceedings, and that chooses external editors to handle the peer
review."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
