The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jeffrey R. Young
May 20, 2016
The
publishing giant Elsevier announced this week that it had bought the Social
Science Research Network, an online community where scholars in the humanities
and social sciences freely share preprints of their academic work. You may have
heard about this on social media, where much of the reaction was fierce and
frustrated.
As George Siemens,
a prominent innovator in education, put it on
Twitter: "Weird. Kinda like 'Satan buys the Vatican.'"
