Apparently I gave the wrong impression that I was arguing that academic journals are evil.
I actually meant to challenge the idea that an academic institution charging for its services is evil, using academic journals as an example of institutions that currently do so and get away with it. Other examples include text book publishing and undergraduate tuition.
Apparently I gave the wrong impression that I was arguing that academic journals are evil.
I actually meant to challenge the idea that an academic institution charging for its services is evil, using academic journals as an example of institutions that currently do so and get away with it. Other examples include text book publishing and undergraduate tuition.
I assumed that was what you meant; so I explained why I still think academic journals are suspect.
I don’t think either of us has a definition of “evil” that would support argument on this topic anyway.