{"id":641,"date":"2022-09-28T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/?p=641"},"modified":"2022-09-28T04:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T08:11:45","slug":"steal-this-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/2022\/09\/28\/steal-this-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Steal this book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wiley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2022\/09\/28\/publisher-blocks-access-ebooks-students-faculty-scramble?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&amp;utm_campaign=d2c6a3dccd-DNU_2021_COPY_02&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-d2c6a3dccd-197318057&amp;mc_cid=d2c6a3dccd&amp;mc_eid=4df0655bca\">sudden withdrawal<\/a> of over 1,300 textbooks from the ProQuest Academic Complete database, which many universities subscribe to, in the days before or (in my university&#8217;s case) just after the beginning of the fall semester, seems unconscionable to me. It is consistent with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/01\/16\/the-state-of-academic-publishing-rip-aaron-swartz\/\">predatory behavior<\/a> some other academic publishers have become known for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To protest, I am making available the book that is mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2022\/09\/28\/publisher-blocks-access-ebooks-students-faculty-scramble?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&amp;utm_campaign=d2c6a3dccd-DNU_2021_COPY_02&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-d2c6a3dccd-197318057&amp;mc_cid=d2c6a3dccd&amp;mc_eid=4df0655bca\">today&#8217;s <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em> article on this topic<\/a>, <em>An Introduction to Human-Environment Geography: Local Dynamics and Global Processes<\/em>. Nothing against the editors of that book, but as academics they are likely to make reasonable middle-class salaries from their institutions, while publishers profit from their labor. Click on the link below for your copy (scroll down to bottom to find the link).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there is a Wiley book that you need access to and cannot find, please write to me for suggestions on where you could likely find it for free.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/files\/2022\/09\/An-Introduction-to-Human-Environment-Geography-Local-Dynamics-and-Global-Processes-William-G.-Moseley-Eric-Perramond-etc.-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of An Introduction to Human-Environment Geography Local Dynamics and Global Processes (William G. 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It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/2022\/09\/28\/steal-this-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/e2mc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}