Publisher, be damned! From price gouging to the open road

David Harvie,Kenneth Weir,Geoff Lightfoot,Simon Lilley

doi:10.1080/08109028.2014.891710

Abstract

All four authors are members of the Leicester school of critical management and have previously written together on academic publishing. David Harvie lectures in finance and is interested in ethical issues related to this and other matters. He is a member of The Free Association writing collective. Geoff Lightfoot lectures in entrepreneurship and has particular interests in the ideology of markets and critical accounting. Simon Lilley works on information aspects of organisation and is currently head of the School of Management at Leicester University. Kenneth Weir is interested in accounting practices, especially critical and social accounting.

Highlights

There’s real life for you, embodied in that little cart
The economics and organization of academic publishing have been the subject of much controversy recently – within the UK and internationally
We have seen the creation of numerous open-access initiatives and dozens of new open-access journals, including the über-respectable Public Library of Science (PLoS)

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Introduction

Prices and profits

Findings

Controversy and academic publishing