academic publishing

Academic publishing

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Academic publishing is part of academia, but at the same time it is predatory and destroying healthy academic life.

Free access to scholarly e-books and articles? Thank you, but no, thank you

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Juan Eduardo Bonnin

09/05/2020

4 minutes to read

Why have academic publishers started offering free access to their content? In this article I argue that they want to prevent you from getting to know the benefits of piracy.

Conferences, course readers and citations. Challenging the Politics of Knowledge

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Ana Deumert

26/06/2018

4 minutes to read

In this column, Ana Deumert reflects on the politics of knowledge that shape research and teaching. She argues that in order to realize sociolinguistics as a truly international and inclusive discipline, we need to change our citation practices.

Diggit Magazine wins Teaching Innovation Award 2017: Interview with Ico Maly

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The Editors

29/09/2017

2 minutes to read

Yesterday, during the Education Bazaar at Tilburg University, Ico Maly received the annual award for Best Teaching Innovation for his work on Diggit. We caught an overjoyed Maly and were able to ask him some questions.

Academic publishing and money

Article

Jan Blommaert

15/09/2016

4 minutes to read

We usually forget the real production price of academic work in Open Access discussions.