Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to do something about it. We started our own.
Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
Workers at the only ‘big four’ publisher to have a union authorize indefinite strike over low wages and diversity
The fascists are moving from covert to overt
The journal’s intrepid book reviewer surveys a mélange of fall 2021 university and scholarly books on human origins and development, finding some surprising commonality in an otherwise often conflictual field.
What will writers do when the outrage is over? Will they go back to writing about flowers and moons?
At one time this magazine tangled with the FBI, the Atomic Energy Commission and Joseph McCarthy
The appearance in English of the three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, published by the Chicago-based socialist publisher, Charles H. Kerr & Company between 1906 and 1909, marked a significant event in the global dissemination of socialist thought.
Elsevier is an academic publishing company based in Amsterdam that annually publishes hundreds of thousands of articles to the tune of $2,000,000,000 in revenue. Meanwhile, The European Union has announced that all scientific papers published there and based on publicly funded research will be freely available beginning in 2020.
It’s safe to say that librarians don’t feel they have the power to unilaterally cancel all their institution’s subscriptions without some fearsome retribution either from within the institution itself or from elements of the publishing world.
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