Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
Best,
JP.
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Jean-Philippe VERGNE
Assistant Professor of Strategy
F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow
Ivey Business School | Western University
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From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.
Best,
Mike
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Michael L. Barnett
Professor, Management & Global Business
Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free?
Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.
Martin Calkins, PhD
Senior Associate Dean
College of Management
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?
The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium
Finance and Commercial Law
Haworth College of Business
Western Michigan University
From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
Subject: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.
It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:
https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/
For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.
Thoughts?
Alex
ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well
Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
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