[Irtalk] To Be Published or To Be Read | Christopher P. Long

[Hilton Gibson]

To be published or to be read, that is the question scholars increasingly
face.

Although publications with reputable university presses or journals
continue to be the cornerstone of the tenure and promotion process, many
remain inaccessible to a broad audience, bound up, as they often are, in
paper volumes or locked behind paywalls required by the outmoded business
practices of scholarly publishers

http://www.cplong.org/2014/03/to-be-published-or-to-be-read/
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