Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEAImportant dialogue with Prof Suresh Canagarajah, on strategies for decolonising #AcademicWriting
Strategies include this academic mentoring initiative, through which I also mentor, for scholars in less advantaged contexts:
Fernando RacimoI haven't posted one of these in a while, so here's a reminder that 37% of the revenue from #Elsevier exits #academia and ends up in the pockets of shareholders: https://library.unc.edu/2020/02/scholarly-publishing-at-the-tipping-point/
Here's one way in which we can wrestle our labor away from them, using #CollectiveAction.
#OpenScience #PeerReview #ScienceMastodon #scicomm #OpenAccess #FAIR #EthicalPublishing #AcademicPublishing #DemocratisingKnowledge
In case of interest, I've blogged about my thoughts & experiences of #AcademicPublishing here:
https://academicemergence.press/
I have a co-authored article on this issue coming out soon(ish) with Professor Kristina Hultgren of the #OpenUniversity, so trying to keep related publications on this in one thread, but also hoping for #AcademicMastodon reactions & reflections to questions of #OpenAccess #DemocratisingKnowledge #EthicalPublishing #SlowAcademia