Back when i was an adjunct, i used to say that academic publishing was a scam & a racket. Now that I'm tenure track (& in the age of "AI") my perspective has changed somewhat, in that it's a scam, a racket, *&* fundamentally undermining the very knowledge production it was meant to safeguard & enact
Dr. Damien P. Williams is under the vast indifference of heaven
Wiley buys Emerald. Pretty soon there'll be like three academic publishers left.
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Deal adds nearly 500 journal brands, 8,000 book titles, and a substantial archive of case studies and backfile content