Stephen Leeder

Enviado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja

Australian academics seek to challenge 'web of avarice' in scientific publishing

In the wake of editor-in-chief Stephen Leeder’s sacking from the Medical Journal of Australia, academics are challenging the control of a select group of publishing houses over scientific journals

Leeder told Guardian Australia he still felt “pretty beaten up” by the MJA experience, knowledge and scholarly information had gone from being a public good to a “commercial, tradable commodity”.

“The whole academic publishing industry is a gigantic web of avarice and selfishness, and the academic community has not engaged to the extent it perhaps should have to stop it,” Leeder said.
“Scholarly publishing is a bit like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. It’s not totally clear what the hell is going on, but you can be sure someone is making a hell of a lot of money from it.”/.../