04.10.2021
The role of book reviews in the academic book ecosystem
« This report is the result of a 6- week internship project to research the role of academic book reviews, with a focus on reviews of open access monographs in major mainstream intellectual review publications. The project was inspired by the suggestion in Peter Baldwin’s 2018 article, ‘Why Are Universities Open Access Laggards?’, that some of the major intellectual book reviewing publications (London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, LA Review of Books etc.) might not have yet reviewed an open access book. (…) »