"Academic Publisher Unveils New Journal Which Prevents All Access To Its Content"

[unjapanologist]

Note: the blog post linked below is a joke, and I very much regret that pointing that out is necessary. Real academic publishing is so nuts and so close to this that I can almost imagine it happening.

Academic Publisher Unveils New Journal Which Prevents All Access To Its Content

Comments

[samjohnsson]

"academic publishing" - the new oxymoron?

[unjapanologist]

"Privating" has been proposed as a more appropriate alternative. I like it.

[lilacsigil]

I'd comment, but you'll have to pay me a honorarium first.

[unjapanologist]

In my day, at least we got a free five-word preview of a comment before we had to decide if we'd pay or not.

[thistleingrey]

ha! Though sometimes a garbled one, with a preview of the page's encoding (CSS especially) rather than its content....

[cathexys]

I'm not sure what that says about me, but I found the comments and your responses more amusing than the original post :D

[unjapanologist]

The original post isn't actually very funny, I think? It just kind of makes you want to cry. (I like how it highlights that keeping many people from reading articles helps mistakes from escaping scrutiny.)

...I've seen a lot of icons with jiggling breasts and other unmentionables, but none of them felt quite as filthy as that one ;)