29.05.2017
Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research
« (…) Since the Second World War, academic publishing practices have had to cope with enormous changes in the scale of the research enterprise, in the culture and management of higher education, and in the ecosystem of scholarly publishers. The pace of change has been particularly rapid in the last twenty-five years, thanks to digital technologies. This has also been a time of growing divergence between the different roles of academic publishing: as a means of disseminating validated knowledge, as a form of symbolic capital for academic career progression, and as a profitable business enterprise.
This briefing paper aims to provide a historical perspective that can inform the debates about what the future of academic publishing should look like. (…) »
source > zenodo.org, Fyfe, Aileen, Coate, Kelly, Curry, Stephen, et al, 25 mai 2017
