medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Madeleine Gray <[log in to unmask]>
> Couldn't have put it better myself - but the question remains, what do we do
about it?
do?
DO?
we're all Scholards here, Maddy, unceasingly embracing the Contemplative Life
so that the World won't Go to Hell in a Handbasket.
it's certainly not up to us to "Do" anything about it at all.
'cept, maybe, talk about it.
quietly, amongst ourselves, and in a Civil Manner.
> And yes, I regularly publish stuff my library can't afford, never mind my
students.
ah*HA*
Part of the Problem, eh?
**Get Her**, everyone.
now, where's that Pitchfork of mine when i really need it?
c
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> From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
culture [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Christopher Crockett
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> Sent: 31 May 2012 16:43
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] restoring the Archimedes palimpsest
>
> 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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