‘Predatory’ Open Access Journals as Parody: Exposing the Limitations of ‘Legitimate’ Academic Publishing
The concept of the ‘predatory’ publisher has today become a standard way of characterizing a new breed of open access journals that seem to be more concerned with making a profit than disseminating academic knowledge. This essay presents an alternative view of such publishers, arguing that if we tre...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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tripleC
2017-07-01
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Series: | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique |
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Online Access: | https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/870 |