Time to stop the exploitation of free academic labour
Commercial publishing houses continue to make unbounded profits while exploiting the free labour of researchers through peer review. If publishers are to be compensated financially for the value that they add within a capitalist system, then so should all others who add value, including reviewers. I...
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| description | Commercial publishing houses continue to make unbounded profits while exploiting the free labour of researchers through peer review. If publishers are to be compensated financially for the value that they add within a capitalist system, then so should all others who add value, including reviewers. I propose that peer review should be included as a professional service by research institutes in their contracts with commercial publishers. This would help to recognize the value of peer review, and begin to shape it into a functional form of quality control. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3df340e399eb408e9bdbda2be931e6cd2025-08-20T02:07:49ZengEuropean Association of Science EditorsEuropean Science Editing2518-33542020-07-01461310.3897/ese.2020.e5183951839Time to stop the exploitation of free academic labourJon Tennant0Imperial College LondonCommercial publishing houses continue to make unbounded profits while exploiting the free labour of researchers through peer review. If publishers are to be compensated financially for the value that they add within a capitalist system, then so should all others who add value, including reviewers. I propose that peer review should be included as a professional service by research institutes in their contracts with commercial publishers. This would help to recognize the value of peer review, and begin to shape it into a functional form of quality control.https://ese.arphahub.com/article/51839/download/pdf/Peer reviewscholarly publishingPlan Squality |
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| title | Time to stop the exploitation of free academic labour |
| title_full | Time to stop the exploitation of free academic labour |
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| title_short | Time to stop the exploitation of free academic labour |
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| topic | Peer review scholarly publishing Plan S quality |
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