medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Madeleine Gray <[log in to unmask]>
>If you are on a temporary contract with a small and struggling institution,
you simply cannot afford to offend the publishing heavyweights.
i'm trying --without success-- to think of another Industry (in addition to
scholarly publishing) which both
1) gets it raw material absolutely *FREE* [SUCKERS!!]
and
b) prices its product well beyond the means of many of its potential customers
--including many who are also the primary suppliers of the fodder for that
production.
(i'm primarily talking here about the "industry heavyweights": the likes of
Brill, Palgrave, Pindar, Brepols, the [Evil Twins, who should know better]
Oxbridge UPs, etc.)
there is also something of a corollary to (b):
the Heavyweights' pricing scheme poops in their own nest, since it greatly
restricts the dissemination of the very knowledge which is (or purports to be)
their primary product.
>Given the choice between making your material available online and publishing
in one of the notional 'A-list' journals, thus securing your job and possibly
that of your colleagues for another 5 years, what would you do?
this is a Trick Question, right?
c
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