The expropriation of intellectual capital and the political economy of international academic publishing

Merrett, Christopher

doi:10.1080/02560040608557779

Cited by 11 publications

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“…Size is only one of the innovations of PLOS ONE, which also features post-publication peer review and article-level metrics. Authors in the developing world are expected to publish in the top international journals; from an economics perspective, this is not optimal for the developing world, as discussed by Merrett (2006). Local publishing would be more affordable, as it would allow scholars and universities to take advantage of a lower cost of living.…”

Section: Discussion: Issues and Challenges With Switching To Productimentioning

confidence: 99%

Economics of scholarly communication in transition

Morrison¹

2013

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Academic library budgets are the primary source of revenue for scholarly journal publishing. There is more than enough money in the budgets of academic libraries to fund a fully open access scholarly journal publishing system. Seeking efficiencies, such as a reasonable average cost per article, will be key to a successful transition. This article presents macro level economic data and analysis illustrating the key factors and potential for cost savings.

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Section: Discussion: Issues and Challenges With Switching To Productimentioning

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Economics of scholarly communication in transition

Morrison¹

2013

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“…This is similar to the CSIR's appropriation of certain chemicals found in the Hoodia plant, without initially acknowledging centuries-old traditional knowledge. Scholarship in the Third World is similarly vulnerable: highquality research is produced at a fraction of its actual cost (thanks to the public purse), which is then donated to international commercial publishers who package it and charge huge fees for it, with little direct material return to its authors or knowledge holders (Merrett 2006). In any event, just who gets the returns is always contested (Nwauche 2003), as has been the case with Hoodia royalties.…”

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Who owns what? Indigenous knowledge and struggles over representation

Tomaselli

2014

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Ownership of field research records involving informants and subject communities is discussed with regard to doing research amongst indigenous populations. Intellectual property rights (IPR) law often assumes, for example, that an age-old mythical story retold by a contemporary informant is owned by the legal entity that facilitated its being captured in writing. The implication is that if the story-teller now wants to tell the same story to someone else, written legal permission from the legal entity would be required. IPR contracts freeze the dynamism of knowledge, killing its 'lived' relation, and the process owned by others (our research partners/hosts/subjects) is transformed into commodities that the original storytellers no longer own or control. For our ǂKhomani Bushman hosts, this constitutes information theft. A third party, in our case the academy, claims ownership of ideas our subjects thought were theirs. This article examines ensuing issues of IPR and ethics in relation to doing research amongst indigenous communities.

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“…Indeed as Christopher Merrett put it some years ago:Publishers pull off this confidence trick (the massive subsidisation of the publishing industry by government and other education funders) by understanding only too well the fissures, faults and inherent vulnerability of academic life. (Merrett, 2006: 97)…”

Section: A Political Economy Of Academic/scientific Publishingmentioning

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Academic publishing and open access: Costs, benefits and options for publishing research

May

2019

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This article briefly sets out a political economy of academic publishing, exploring what the costs and benefits of this model are/were for the academic community. It then moves to explore forms of open access publication available to the social science (politics and international relations) community in the United Kingdom and beyond. The article concludes by asking why (given its likely advantages), the open access model is not ubiquitous and suggests that the future of publication lies in the hands of early career researchers.

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The expropriation of intellectual capital and the political economy of international academic publishing

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Economics of scholarly communication in transition

Economics of scholarly communication in transition

Who owns what? Indigenous knowledge and struggles over representation

Academic publishing and open access: Costs, benefits and options for publishing research

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