2009
DOI: 10.1163/146544609x12469428108466
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The Political Economy of Academic Publishing

Abstract: The digitisation of academic journals has created the technical possibility that research can be made available to any interested party free of charge. This possibility has been undermined by the proprietary control that commercial publishers exercise over the majority of this material. The control of commercial publishers over publicly-funded research has been criticised by charitable bodies, politicians and academics themselves. While the existing critical literature on academic publishers has considerable v… Show more

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“…Until, that is, the possibilities of journals became clear from the early 1990s onwards. Academic journals rapidly became growing and profitable areas of academic publishing (Pirie 2009, Beverungen et al 2012, Harvie et al 2012. For the academics and their institutions, they provide regular outlets for publications and can be expanded to meet new demands, both in terms of the number of issues a journal publishes, and the development of new specialist journals.…”
Section: Publishingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Until, that is, the possibilities of journals became clear from the early 1990s onwards. Academic journals rapidly became growing and profitable areas of academic publishing (Pirie 2009, Beverungen et al 2012, Harvie et al 2012. For the academics and their institutions, they provide regular outlets for publications and can be expanded to meet new demands, both in terms of the number of issues a journal publishes, and the development of new specialist journals.…”
Section: Publishingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…duże międzynarodowe korporacje wydawców akademickich (np. Pirie 2009;Peekhaus 2012). Jak podkreśla Hall, dziś w sektorze szkolnictwa wyższego kapitał handlowy dominuje nad producentami.…”
Section: Transnarodowe Stowarzyszenie Kapitałów W Szkolnictwie Wyższymunclassified
“…Zmiana ta w niczym nie podważa samej dominacji kapitału nad polem. Ten poważny problem często jest niedostrzegany w wielu krytycznych analizach akademickiego rynku wydawniczego, skupionych zwykle na analizie sposobów grodzenia dóbr wspólnych wiedzy i alienacji pracowników od ich wytworów (Peekhaus 2012;Pirie 2009). Gdy za głównego przeciwnika uzna się obecne formy własności wiedzy, łatwo przyjąć, że projekty dotyczące radykalnego poszerzenia otwartego dostępu mogą podważyć kapitalistyczną kontrolę.…”
Section: Open Access I Komunizm Kapitałuunclassified
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“…The business model of academic publishing is based on a double, or even triple, appropriation of public resources where universities pay for the research, writing, reviewing and even editing of journals, which they then have to buy back for their libraries (HoCSTS, 2004: 37). In both its political economy, and its concern with ranking the productivity of academics through their research outputs, the academic publishing industry is at the forefront of neoliberal strategies of privatization and accumulation of knowledge through intellectual property rights, as well as the measurement and exploitation of immaterial labour (Aronowitz, 2008;De Angelis and Harvie, 2009;Pirie, 2009;Readings, 1996;Slaughter and Rhoades, 2004).…”
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