Open access advocates have the natural high ground and are gradually winning the debate over the future of academic publishing.
We had a quick look at the economics of the academic publishing model back here, when the subject first came to prominence.
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The Massachusetts-based conglomerate was already a big player in military electronics, but generated much of its revenues from other lines such as Beechcraft business jets, Amana appliances, and academic publishing.
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Some have been set up by academics who are unhappy with the way academic publishing works. (Since January some 9, 500 researchers have joined a boycott of Elsevier.) In several cases the entire editorial boards of existing journals have resigned to start new ones with lower prices and less restricted access.
Professors whose "academic" achievements involved publishing sanitized postmodern versions of anti-Jewish Palestinian propaganda were granted tenure and rewarded with lucrative book contracts.
Politics arguably has also played a role in YIISA's difficulty in publishing articles in top tier academic publications and even in attracting students to its courses.
Donald Green, who heads the Institution for Social and Policy Studies that housed YIISA, released a statement explaining that YIISA, like all other programs, was evaluated by two set criteria: Its success in publishing articles in top-tier academic journals and its success in attracting a large number of students to its courses.
Is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
And he scored another hit by publishing a report from Lord Norton, a Tory academic, containing scores of suggestions for improving the performance of Parliament.
The lawsuit called attention to academic research that suggests that Netflix indirectly exposed the movie preferences of its users by publishing anonymized customer data.
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On this front, there is much room for improvement: writings by business faculty in academic journals can be bad enough to be meaningless, as they seek tenure in their institutions through their publishing records.
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