medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Couldn't have put it better myself - but the question remains, what do we do about it?
And yes, I regularly publish stuff my library can't afford, never mind my students.
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray PhD, FRHistS
Reader in History/ Darllenydd mewn Hanes
School of Humanities and Lifelong Learning /Ysgol Ddyniaethau a Dysgu Gydol Oes
University of Wales, Newport/Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd
Caerleon Campus/Campws Caerllion,
Newport/Casnewydd NP18 3QT Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675
'Medical science can make us live to 90. If you haven't got the arts and humanities, what's the point of living to 90?' (Leszek Borysiewicz, VC of Cambridge)
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From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Christopher Crockett [[log in to unmask]]
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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