{"id":473,"date":"2009-03-30T18:41:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T22:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-03-30T18:41:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T22:41:04","slug":"stop-intellectual-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/stop-intellectual-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Intellectual Apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A call to action from BYU English professor Gideon Burton: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academicevolution.com\/2009\/03\/intellectual-apartheid.html\">Stop intellectual apartheid<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let me illustrate how academic institutions enforce Intellectual Apartheid through a simple experiment you can perform right now. Let\u2019s say that you are researching lingering effects of South Africa&#8217;s apartheid and you discovered (as I did using Google Scholar) a recent article, \u201cFantasmatic Transactions: On the Persistence of Apartheid Ideology\u201d (published in <em>Subjectivity<\/em> in July, 2008 by D. Hook). Now for the experiment: <a href=\"http:\/\/foxtrot.palgrave-journals.com\/sub\/journal\/v24\/n1\/pdf\/sub200819a.pdf\">click on this link to the full text of the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of two things just occurred. Either you just gained immediate access to a PDF version of the full article; or, more likely, an authentication window popped up requesting your login credentials. It turns out that Palgrave-Macmillan publishes <em>Subjectivity<\/em>, and through their website one can get access to this article for a mere $30. Alternatively, one may subscribe to the journal for $503 per year.<\/p>\n<p>You really don\u2019t need to go to the developing world to recognize that advanced knowledge is a big club with stiff entrance fees. Even middle class Americans will think twice before throwing down $30 for a scholarly article. How likely will this knowledge ever reach scholars in Mexico or India? And just how broadly can the editors of <em>Subjectivity<\/em> expect it to reach when subscribing costs $503\/year?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gideon also gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academicevolution.com\/2009\/03\/intellectual-apartheid.html\">suggestions for scholars, librarians, and administrators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/e\/35477ce6-a785-496c-a706-77795f3cc787\/Academia-must-divest-from-Intellectual\/\">via Cameron Neylon on friendfeed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A call to action from BYU English professor Gideon Burton: Stop intellectual apartheid! Let me illustrate how academic institutions enforce Intellectual Apartheid through a simple experiment you can perform right now. Let\u2019s say that you are researching lingering effects of South Africa&#8217;s apartheid and you discovered (as I did using Google Scholar) a recent article, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,99,85,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-publishing","category-higher-education","category-information-ecosystem","category-library-and-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}