Socially just publishing: Implications for geographers and their journals

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Batterbury, SDate
2017-12-15Source Title
Fennia: International Journal of GeographyPublisher
Geographical Society of FinlandUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Batterbury, SimonAffiliation
Resource Management and GeographyMetadata
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Batterbury, S. (2017). Socially just publishing: Implications for geographers and their journals. Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 195 (2), pp.175-181. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.66910.Access Status
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There have been a range of protests against the high journal subscription costs, and author processing charges (APCs) levied for publishing in the more prestigious and commercially run journals that are favoured by geographers. But open protests across the sector like the ‘Academic Spring’ of 2012, and challenges to commercial copyright agreements, have been fragmented and less than successful. I renew the argument for ‘socially just’ publishing in geography. For geographers this is not limited to choosing alternative publication venues. It also involves a considerable effort by senior faculty members that are assessing hiring and promotion cases, to read and assess scholarship independently of its place of publication, and to reward the efforts of colleagues that offer their work as a public good. Criteria other than the citation index and prestige of a journal need to be foregrounded. Geographers can also be publishers, and I offer my experience editing the free online Journal of Political Ecology.
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