Tear it down, build it up: The Research output team, or the library-as-publisher

Insights: the UKSG Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 158-162

  Eve, Martin Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84878884840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20487754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1629/2048-7754.25.2.158     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Monbiot, G, 'Academic Publishers Make Murdoch Look Like a Socialist', The Guardian, August 29, 2011, sec. Comment is free: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist (accessed 20 April 2012).
2. McGuigan, G S and Russell, R D, The Business of Academic Publishing: A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and Its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing, Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, 2008, 9(3): http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/ v09n03/mcguigan-g01.html (accessed 20 April 2012).
3. UCU, 'Universities at Risk: The Impact of Cuts in Higher Education Spending on Local Economies', 2010: http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid= 5149 (accessed 20 April 2012).
4. A concept also discussed, as with some of the above, in my forthcoming book chapter. Eve, M P, The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish. In: Zombies in the Academy, Ed. Wheelan, Andrew, Moore, Chris and Walker, Ruth, forthcoming 2012, London, Intellect Press.
5. See Research Information Network: 'UK Share of World Research Outputs: An Investigation' http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating- research/uk-share-world-research-outputs-investigation (accessed 20 April 2012).
6. Unethical because, particularly in the case of medical research, it is co-operation that benefits humankind, not competition.