Comments on: Scholarly Journal Publishing http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2010/04/28/scholarly-journal-publishing/ Beyond the Book Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:52:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Politics of Journal Publishing in Cultural Studies — Super Bon! http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2010/04/28/scholarly-journal-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-397 The Politics of Journal Publishing in Cultural Studies — Super Bon! Mon, 03 May 2010 12:32:37 +0000 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/?p=716#comment-397 [...] Thanks to his blog, I learned that Ted Striphas’ important, horrifying and inspiring piece on the politics of academic journal publishing–”Acknowleged Goods”–just appeared in the Journal of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. (And I agree with Jason Mittel, the first commenter, that he should just post the essay for people to read.) The same post also makes mention of Siva Vaidhyanathan’s “Googlization of Universities” piece. [...] [...] Thanks to his blog, I learned that Ted Striphas’ important, horrifying and inspiring piece on the politics of academic journal publishing–”Acknowleged Goods”–just appeared in the Journal of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. (And I agree with Jason Mittel, the first commenter, that he should just post the essay for people to read.) The same post also makes mention of Siva Vaidhyanathan’s “Googlization of Universities” piece. [...]

]]> By: Jason Mittell http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2010/04/28/scholarly-journal-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Jason Mittell Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:57:12 +0000 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/?p=716#comment-396 Ted - this is a fabulous piece, a must-read for grad students, faculty & editors. I really hope you make it available through your site or institutional repository, especially since C&C/CS is a comparatively low circ journal. I post PDFs of all my articles on my blog without permission, and have never gotten flack from publishers - if they did complain, I would take down the PDF but leave the manuscript version. I do think that scholars need to flex our muscles a bit, especially those of us with tenure and little incentive to jump through publication hoops. There are enough open access journals that there's little reason to publish in a journal with restrictive closed access policies. And these issues need to be taught in grad school, highlighted for emerging scholars to avoid the alienation you eloquently describe. Well done! Ted – this is a fabulous piece, a must-read for grad students, faculty & editors. I really hope you make it available through your site or institutional repository, especially since C&C/CS is a comparatively low circ journal. I post PDFs of all my articles on my blog without permission, and have never gotten flack from publishers – if they did complain, I would take down the PDF but leave the manuscript version.

I do think that scholars need to flex our muscles a bit, especially those of us with tenure and little incentive to jump through publication hoops. There are enough open access journals that there’s little reason to publish in a journal with restrictive closed access policies. And these issues need to be taught in grad school, highlighted for emerging scholars to avoid the alienation you eloquently describe.

Well done!

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