The expropriation of intellectual capital and the political economy of international academic publishing

Critical Arts

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 96-111

  Merrett, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Academic publishing; Journals; Knowledge; Libraries; Open access publishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861734004     PISSN: 02560046     EISSN: 19926049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02560040608557779     Document Type: Article

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