Wiley’s sudden withdrawal of over 1,300 textbooks from the ProQuest Academic Complete database, which many universities subscribe to, in the days before or (in my university’s case) just after the beginning of the fall semester, seems unconscionable to me. It is consistent with the predatory behavior some other academic publishers have become known for. To […]
Posts Tagged ‘academic publishing’
Steal this book
Posted in Academe, tagged academic capitalism, academic publishing, neoliberal education, predatory publishers, Wiley on September 28, 2022 | 1 Comment »
Anthroposcendence…
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, tagged academic meat grinder, academic publishing, Anthropocene, Anthroposcene, discourse, episteme, fast scholarship, Foucauldian archaeology of knowledge, singularity, slow scholarship, tenure on January 31, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Keeping up with the scholarly literature on the Anthropocene, or even on the humanities-relevant Anthropocene, has become a full-time job, and no one I know is paid to do that full-time. (All of the Anthropocene literature is arguably humanities-relevant, but not to the same degree.) To give a sense of the numbers: I counted a […]
JSTOR’s open access list
Posted in Academe, tagged academic publishing, journals, JSTOR, knowledge society, open access, peer-reviewed literature, Process Studies, public scholarship, university presses on May 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve posted before about the coronavirus “silver lining” of the (partial) opening of access to peer-reviewed literature that some academic presses have been offering through the Covid-19 pandemic. Peer-reviewed literature is the bread and butter of scholarship, and access to it is not just a perk of being in academia, but one of the only […]
The colonization of scholarly publishing
Posted in Academe, tagged academic politics, academic publishing, Bruce Gilley, clickbait, colonialism, neoliberalism, scholarly publishing, Third World Quarterly on October 3, 2017 | 8 Comments »
For those following the debate over the article “The Case for Colonialism,” the following adds little new. It’s mostly a way of summarizing the issue and collecting some useful links in one place. There’s a lesson for academia in the flare-up over the Third World Quarterly article “The Case for Colonialism” by Bruce Gilley. The […]
Publishers: from sublime to ridiculous
Posted in Academe, tagged academic publishing, publishers on February 8, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Brian Leiter is sharing the results of a survey on his blog to see which academic publishers are considered “best” in his field of philosophy. I find surveys like this useful — at least when carried out somewhat scientifically and systematically (which Leiter’s isn’t and doesn’t claim to be) — and I think these particular […]
The state of academic publishing (RIP, Aaron Swartz)
Posted in Academe, tagged Aaron Swartz, academic publishing, open access on January 16, 2013 | 3 Comments »
A few days after Aaron Swartz’s suicide — in part triggered by the prospect of a 35-year prison sentence for making a big stash of scholarly journal articles available to the public for free (!) — it is appropriate to think about what is wrong with the state of academic publishing today. Here’s a for […]
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