Ex Libris

Books, creativity and academic freedom

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8360299
AutoresMatthew Gandy (0000-0002-8478-9808, University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen57
Número3
Fecha de publicación2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArea (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/area.70013
OpenAlexW4409185107
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas18

In this commentary I build on my earlier contribution to Area and engage with a series of responses as part of an emerging debate on the future of academic books. Although the deficiencies in UKRI's approach culminated in the suspension of an open access mandate for books to be submitted to the 2029 REF (Research Excellence Framework), the pressure to extend a science‐based publishing model to the social sciences and humanities remains intense. I argue that the imposition of an open access policy for books will restrict academic freedom, threaten independent publishers, exacerbate existing inequalities in access to research funding, disrupt career development for early‐career researchers, and facilitate the economic exploitation of intellectual labour for the development of AI systems

Academic freedom · Creativity · Higher education · Mathematics education · Political science · Sociology · Academic Publishing and Open Access · Computer Science · Law · Mathematics · scientometrics and bibliometrics research