Op 31 augustus was ik uitgenodigd door de Universiteit voor Humanistiek om een keynote te verzorgen tijdens de opening van het academisch jaar in de Leeuwenbergh in Utrecht. Het thema van de opening was “Vrij Denken.” De volledige tekst van de keynote staat in deze blog, inclusief een aantal referenties (onderaan de pagina).
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Growing attention is paid to structural issues in academia, including trust in science and the role of metrics and rankings. In the open-access book Fixing Academia, I focus on another, but related problem: the dominance of a small number of academic publishers, the Big Five: Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Wiley, and SpringerNature.
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On April 2, Fixing Academia was published online (open access) and as a (beautiful!) limited edition paperback edition. Fixing Academia is written by 10 young scholars from the two universities in Amsterdam (VU and UvA) and addresses structural problems in academia that need to be fixed.
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Berend van der Kolk 