James A. Millward: More on academic publishers censoring for China: an exchange with Palgrave about its parent…

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Summary:

Back in November 2017, Ben Bland reported in the Financial Times that the massive publishing conglomerate, SpringerNature, had cut some 1000 articles from two of its journals, The Journal of Chinese Political Science and International Politics, at the behest of the Chinese government. As with the Cambridge University Press scandal that came out earlier, the Chinese importer asked SpringerNature to cut articles from journals on the basis of keywords (“Tibet,” “Xinjiang,” “Cultural Revolution,” etc.). Cambridge eventually backed down after an international outcry (see my open letter here on Medium); later LexisNexis released a statement that said it had been approached to make similar cuts at the source to its database Nexis; in response it removed Nexis and LexisNexis from the Chinese market (leaving Lexis)

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https://medium.com/@millwarj/more-on-academic-publishers-censoring-for-china-an-exchange-with-palgrave-about-its-parent-fd28ada3c07c

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Date tagged:

02/08/2018, 17:32

Date published:

02/08/2018, 12:34