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Stephen Downes

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A good look at some of the issues in commercial academic publishing. "Commercial scholarly publishing is as much about ensuring long-term asset management as it is about providing service to the academic community... the publisher is assumed to have paid for this work-made-for-hire, by seeing the manuscript through to publication, and thus has the right to then sell, or rather rent (as it retains ownership) the work back to the authors' employers." The arguments are not new, but since academics continue to participate in this ridiculous system, the arguments bear repeating.

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