Inside Higher Education reports today on two developments in social science publishing centered on the large commercial publisher Sage. In the story available here, we learn that the American Sociological Association, has followed the lead of the AAA and foresaken self-publishing its journals portfolio in lieu of a co-publishing agreement with Sage. This would have been a straight forward story of celebration or mourning (depending on where you stand), were it not co-occuring with the other storyline presented in the IHE story. A fully Saged owned political science journal–Political Theory–is at the center of a controversy related to a flubbed firing/hiring/replacing of the journal’s editor. The episode revealed for many political scientists the conflicts built into corporate owned or controlled journals and showed again the misallignment of commercial and scholarly values. Read all about it and think twice when Sage calls and asks you to take up an editorship. Thanks IHE.
(Forget open access. Why again are we are dismantling the university press system and selling/giving away the pieces to these folks?)
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