What are we to do with feral publishers?

Organization

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 905-914

  Harvie, David ^a   Lightfoot, Geoff ^a   Lilley, Simon ^a   Weir, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic publishing; excess profit; exploitation; Informa plc; tax avoidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869998640     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508412448859     Document Type: Article

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