Shame on Stanford
Cathy N. Davidson,
Chronicle of Higher Education,
May 08, 2019
I must confess I don't feel nearly the same outrage at Stanford's decision to cut subsidies to its university press as Cathy Davidson does, but then again, I'm not at all invested in publishing or buying books; my work is entirely online, and review, for me, is best done post-publication. Sure, we can debate these points, but some of the argumentation here is entirely spurious. Like: " Since the publishing of scholarly books and journals is largely the domain of the humanities (etc)... the university is making an implicit judgment that those domains do not deserve resources." Um, no. Like: "Given that all of higher education is reputational — rankings, accreditation, and beyond — scholarly publishing is the most rigorous form of peer review." Wow. No. "If a university's intellectual and educational reputation is to rest on the scholarly output of its faculty... then scholarly publishing must be subsidized as part of the educational mission." Hardly. All bad arguments.
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