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In: | Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 41, 2010, 2, S. 191-215 |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 191-215 |
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ISSN: |
1198-9742
1710-1166 |
DOI: | 10.3138/jsp.41.2.191 |
veröffentlicht in: | Journal of Scholarly Publishing |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> Recession is currently causing a resurgence of the academic serials crisis. Profit-mongering by commercial publishers is once again denounced as the key driver of the crisis. However, a critical analysis of institutional and bibliometric data does not reveal excessive corporate greed in recent years; instead, it suggests that the present hurdles stem largely from years of inadequate budget allocations to academic libraries and from a publishing frenzy fuelled by simplistic methods of evaluating faculty productivity. To prevent what is likely to be the publishing equivalent of a tsunami in the next few years, universities and research institutions urgently need to re-emphasize quality over quantity in the publishing process, and they must find ways to include peer-reviewing efficiency among their criteria for productivity and impact. Achieving these goals will require concerted efforts by researchers, librarians, and publishers. </jats:p> |