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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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The power of free: In search of democratic academic publishing strategies

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A discussion text engaging with the current regime of academic publishing in the light of debates over "Gold Open Access".
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Open Access and Academic Freedom - Inside Higher Ed

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Over the last decade there has been a rapid evolution toward increased scholarly publishing online. Much of it remains proprietary publishing available only through paid access, but there are now a number of peer-reviewed gold access online scholarly journals, and book publishers commonly make a table of contents and a sample chapter freely available. Google meanwhile has made the complete texts of millions of public domain books available for free. And there are countless websites devoted to more narrowly defined online publishing projects.

 




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