Rage against the academic publishing machine does not have to be futile

Minimum compliance with publication requirements is the best recipe for job satisfaction, says Mike Marinetto

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December 21, 2017

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July 31, 2018

Michael Marinetto

Twitter: @ethicalCARBS

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#1 Submitted by Eleuthera on December 22, 2017 - 6:19am

Brilliant. Thank you for this. It takes guts to follow your advice, but the reward is freedom and the chance to savour those aspects of our profession that make it glorious: we get paid for thinking, and then for sharing the meaningful (!) outcomes of our thinking with the world through (mainly) teaching and the occasional output in print. Elitist? So what?

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