Opening the wrong gate? the academic spring and scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences

Publishing Research Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 159-171

  Brienza, Casey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic publishing; Elsevier boycott; Impact; Open access; Public scholarship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870928844     PISSN: 10538801     EISSN: 19364792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-012-9272-5     Document Type: Article

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