Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo-liberal academy

IF 1.6 2区社会学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

Area Pub Date : 2023-05-07 DOI:10.1111/area.12877

Matthew Gandy

引用次数: 2

Abstract

In April 2022 UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) announced that all books must be open access from January 2024 onwards. If the UKRI proposals are formalised as part of the next REF (Research Excellence Framework) exercise, this will have damaging consequences for geography and other disciplines. In this commentary I argue that this is an ill-considered proposal that is already disrupting academic book publishing. There is an urgent need to evaluate alternative open access models that will not entrench existing forms of academic inequality, marginalise the significance of books as a distinctive facet of intellectual life, or threaten the production of rigorous peer-reviewed monographs.

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受到威胁的图书:开放获取出版和新自由主义学术

2022年4月，UKRI(英国研究与创新)宣布，从2024年1月起，所有书籍必须开放获取。如果UKRI的建议正式成为下一个REF(卓越研究框架)的一部分，这将对地理和其他学科产生破坏性后果。在这篇评论中，我认为这是一个考虑不周的提议，已经扰乱了学术图书出版。我们迫切需要评估可供选择的开放获取模式，这些模式不会巩固现有的学术不平等形式，不会边缘化书籍作为智力生活的一个独特方面的重要性，也不会威胁到严格的同行评议专著的生产。

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Area GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

5.20

自引率

13.60%

发文量

审稿时长

24 weeks

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