Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing.
Matthew Gandy's Commentary in Area (2023) criticised the decision of the national funder UKRI to mandate that all books resulting from the research that it funds must be published open access (OA) from 2024. This raises many issues of importance to geographers. We argue that scholars in the discipli...
| Publicado en: | Area (0004-0894) Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 1 - 9 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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