"I have long cared about the serials crisis and now that the world is
thinking more critically about student debt, I want us all to realize
the direct relationship between the scholarly communications system, and
the scholarly society system, and the neoliberalization of the American
research university. Skyrocketing tuition is a consequence of public
disinvestment in public universities like mine and yours. Leasing (we no
longer purchase) toll access scholarship at ever higher costs from
exceedingly profitable commercial firms (and their society partners) is
not helping close the inequality gap in higher education. It is hardly
the only factor involved (ex: think health care costs) but it is one of
the few factors in which faculty and graduate students have a direct
role to play—as authors, as disciplinary policy shapers, as
peer-reviewers, as editors, etc. As contributors to the scholarly
publishing system, we have choices available to us. We can make our work
open in a number of ways and we can support and encourage those whose
values and commitments align with our own."
-Jason Baird Jackson, here.
(just wanted to highlight this in case some of you missed it)
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