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Who's Afraid of AAARG? The Crisis of Academic Publishing and the Uncertain Future of the Humanities
- Author(s):
- Jonathan Basile (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- Digital Humanists, Science Studies and the History of Science
- Subject(s):
- Digital humanities, Copyright, Library science, Information science, Scholarly publishing, Open access publishing
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- peer-to-peer, filesharing, humanities, Library and information science, Academic publishing, Open access
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/cemr-mb07
- Abstract:
- This essay situates the file-sharing website AAARG (primarily used to share academic texts in the humanities) in the context of the economics of the contemporary academy. Contingent employment prevents access to research libraries, while reduced library budgets and the exploitative practices of publishing conglomerates such as Elsevier limit options even for those who do have access. In this context, AAARG provides one of the only outlets to allow for a consistent, global channel of communication for researchers to share their work.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Online publication
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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