{"id":2664,"date":"2012-04-23T13:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:53","slug":"agree-or-disagree-absurd-academic-publishing-racket-is-past-its-sell-by-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/23\/agree-or-disagree-absurd-academic-publishing-racket-is-past-its-sell-by-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Agree or disagree: Absurd &#8220;academic publishing racket&#8221; is past its sell-by date?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agree or disagree?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the <em>Observer<\/em>, John Naughton unloads both barrels on the &#8220;academic publishing racket&#8221; 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&#8217; copyrights as a condition of publication, then charge astounding sums to the scientists and academics they are &#8220;serving&#8221; for the right to read the work they&#8217;re all engaged in producing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/04\/22\/absurd-academic-publishing-r.html\">Absurd &#8220;academic publishing racket&#8221; is past its sell-by date &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Observer, John Naughton unloads both barrels on the &#8220;academic publishing racket&#8221; 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&#8217; copyrights as a condition of publication, then charge astounding sums to the scientists and academics they are &#8220;serving&#8221; for the right to read the work they&#8217;re all engaged in producing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[616,617,120,615],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-academic-publishing","tag-agree-or-disagree","tag-boingboing","tag-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10048,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/10048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}