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Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy

Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy In April 2022 UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) announced that all books must be open access from January 2024 onwards. If the UKRI proposals are formalised as part of the next REF (Research Excellence Framework) exercise, this will have damaging consequences for geography and other disciplines. In this commentary I argue that this is an ill‐considered proposal that is already disrupting academic book publishing. There is an urgent need to evaluate alternative open access models that will not entrench existing forms of academic inequality, marginalise the significance of books as a distinctive facet of intellectual life, or threaten the production of rigorous peer‐reviewed monographs. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Area Wiley

Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy

Area , Volume 55 (4) – Dec 1, 2023

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Wiley
Copyright
© 2023 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
ISSN
0004-0894
eISSN
1475-4762
DOI
10.1111/area.12877
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Abstract

In April 2022 UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) announced that all books must be open access from January 2024 onwards. If the UKRI proposals are formalised as part of the next REF (Research Excellence Framework) exercise, this will have damaging consequences for geography and other disciplines. In this commentary I argue that this is an ill‐considered proposal that is already disrupting academic book publishing. There is an urgent need to evaluate alternative open access models that will not entrench existing forms of academic inequality, marginalise the significance of books as a distinctive facet of intellectual life, or threaten the production of rigorous peer‐reviewed monographs.

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Published: Dec 1, 2023

Keywords: books; neo‐liberal academy; open access publishing; REF; UKRI

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