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Open Access Publishing: Government/Institutional Policies And Librarian Roles, Paul G. St-Pierre
Open Access Publishing: Government/Institutional Policies And Librarian Roles, Paul G. St-Pierre
Paul G. St-Pierre
Slides from guest lecture for LIS 9130: Information Policy
The Political Economy Of Scientific Publishing: An Annotated Bibliography, Paul G. St-Pierre
The Political Economy Of Scientific Publishing: An Annotated Bibliography, Paul G. St-Pierre
Paul G. St-Pierre
This annotated bibliography examines elements of the political economy of academic publishing, especially in scientific disciplines where economic sustainability has been threatened by the entry of commercial publishing into the dissemination of research findings. Several themes are explored: the emergence of markets as the central organizing principle of modern economies; the capitalist enclosure and commodification of scientific communication that has occurred in the past forty years; the conservative nature of the academic reward structure, as seen in faculty collective bargaining agreements with respect to promotion and tenure, that inhibits constructive change in the publishing system; the importance of peer review …