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Luis Ibanez wrote:
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"Why academics, for example, are wiling to accept the bizarre<br>
system in which they contribute to peer review journals for free,<br>
sometimes even paying a publication fee, and then have their <br>
institutions buy this work back from the printers at exorbitant<br>
rates remains a mystery"<br>
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<br>
Yochai Benkler<br>
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I'd always thought the idea was that journals perceived as
"prestigious" could get away with charging academics to publish their
papers because having published papers is of benefit to the academics
concerned in terms of their career prospects (essentially a case of
short-term pain for long-term gain, as far as academics are concerned).
Strikes me as being a daft way of going about things, but there it is.
Are there other reasons I'm missing? :)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Stu<br>
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Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, <br>
and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.benkler.org/Bio.html">http://www.benkler.org/Bio.html</a><br>
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Text excerpt from<br>
"The Coase's Penguin: Linux and the nature of the Firm"<br>
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