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Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hNsKmLnpTVk/absurd-academic-publishing-r.html
Absurd "academic publishing racket" is past its sell-by date
In the Observer, John Naughton unloads both barrels on the "academic publishing racket" in which giant multinational publishers get free, state-subsidized research to publish, use free, state-subsidized labor for peer-review, require assignments of the scholars' copyrights as a condition of publication, then charge astounding sums to the scientists and academics they are "serving" for the [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hNsKmLnpTVk/absurd-academic-publishing-r.html
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