The Publishing Crisis

There is a crisis in academic publishing – too much pressure on top journals, too many books of marginal quality, the rise of predatory journals and publishers that publish low or marginal quality research and tremendous pressure on academics worldwide to publish, according to Philip Altbach and Hans de Wit. Their argument has triggered a continuing debate among higher education experts.

GLOBAL

The dangers of limiting research to elite universities

Jenny J Lee and Alma Maldonado-Maldonado

Suggestions to differentiate published research universities from mostly teaching universities are disturbing, as the implications are not only that social, economic and institutional inequities would remain unaddressed and probably worsen, but that the distribution dynamics of global wealth would be affected negatively.

INDIA

Reduce publishing in India and increase quality

Pushkar

Unlike in the West, the publishing crisis in India is due to the government’s policy of making research compulsory across all institutions without taking into account their different nature, the quality of faculty or the lack of basic facilities for research.

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