academic publishing
Journal article industry
Academic publishing is the system by which scholarly research reaches other scholars—through peer-reviewed journals, university presses, and conference proceedings.
Researchers submit findings, editors coordinate review by other experts in the field, and accepted work enters the permanent scholarly record.
The system has been criticized for concentrating profits in a few large publishers while relying on unpaid labor from researchers and reviewers: The academic publishing model charges universities to access research their own faculty produced.
- publishersFirms producing printed works
- monographSingle-topic scholarly work
- peer reviewExpert evaluation before publication
- double blindStudy hiding group assignments
- open accessFree public scholarly content
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News for mass audiences
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Releasing work without publishers
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