Date: 26 Jan Time: 14:00 – 15:00 GMT Location: Twitter – use #indyacademics and #acbookweek to join the debate In the trade book publishing sector, the emergence of independent publishing is perhaps the single most disruptive trend of recent years. Technology has empowered writers to publish their work professionally, affordably, expediently, across multiple formats and into different geographical …

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In decades past, there existed a tacit ‘pact’ between the academic community and academic publishers

The EU Commissioner for Research, Carlos Moedas emphasizes the importance of Open Access for the future of research dissemination.

EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation has called for Publishers to adapt in order to make Open Access truly open.

Is it fundamentally unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content?