Later I'll log in to the LSA Ethics blog and comment there, but quickly: Publisher X conducts peer review, has a history of publishing grammars that meet the field's standards, prints on archive-quality paper, and has advertising, distribution, and a conference presence that make its publications known to the world. When my university judges publications by "quality", this is what it means. <br>
<br>But the issue of price is critical, and no academic should have to singlehandedly fight to have a good-quality but open-access or inexpensive publication recognized by a tenure committee. This is why we have professional societies.<br>
<br>Johanna Nichols<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Mark W. Post <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markwpost@gmail.com" target="_blank">markwpost@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear LINGTYP Listmembers,<br>
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I am sending the following link on behalf of Robbins Burling, who
has written a piece on the LSA's Ethics Blog to do with the high
costs of many published grammars from an ethics perspective. This
relates to an extended discussion on this topic on LINGTYP some
months ago, so may be of interest to listmembers. Rob has invited
comments on the piece, and especially any proposed solutions.<br>
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Cheers<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Mark<br>
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