@article{Finn_Peet_Mollett_Lauermann_2017, title={Reclaiming value from academic labor: commentary by the Editors of Human Geography}, volume={195}, url={https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/66683}, DOI={10.11143/fennia.66683}, abstractNote={<p>There have long been discussions about the need for an alternative publishing model for academic research. This has been made clear by the September 2017 scandal involving <em>Third World Quarterly</em>. The editor’s deeply problematic decision to publish an essay arguing in favor of colonialism was likely meant as click-bate to drive clicks and citations. But we should not lose sight of the fact that this latest scandal is only one recent manifestation of a long-simmering problem that has periodically commanded significant attention in the academic literature, blogs, email lists, conference sessions, and the popular press. As a direct result, over the last decade or more, new journals have been created that specifically endeavor to offer routes around corporate/capitalist academic publishing, and several existing journals have removed themselves from this profit-driven ecosystem. In this commentary, the editorial team of the journal <em>Human Geography</em> weighs in on what we see as the nature of the problem, what we are doing in response, what our successes have been, and what challenges remain.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Fennia - International Journal of Geography}, author={Finn, John C. and Peet, Richard and Mollett, Sharlene and Lauermann, John}, year={2017}, month={Dec.}, pages={182–184} }