<div dir="ltr">Why is it so strange to thank the publisher? Because it is your research. They are your ideas, arguments and conclusions. It is your text, the product of your creative thinking, your months of academic labour. Something that you have, usually, revised again and again for publication in your dissertation. How is it ever possible to think that part of this product now belongs to the publishers of a journal? Whom you have to thank for their kind permission to publish it again in the thesis for which it was originally written?<b><font color="#ff0000"> What kind of alienation is needed to make this act of prostitution seem like nothing more than simple politeness?</font></b><div>
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