“Academics have warned of the ‘Wikipediaisation’ of scholarship following allegations of plagiarism and an ethos of ‘quantity over quality’ in US academic publishing. The controversy stems from the publication of a textbook by Routledge that drew heavily on material from one of its earlier guides. The first text, Theory for Religious Studies, was published in 2004, when the authors signed a contract giving Routledge the right to use the material however it wanted in return for credit and royalties. However, when the authors – William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal, professors of religious studies at Case Western Reserve University – spotted that much of a later book, Theory for Performance Studies (2007), was identical to their own, they complained to the publisher …” (more)
[Melanie Newman, Times Higher Education, 2 July]