Re-thinking Academic Publishing: The Promise of Platform Cooperativism · Business of Knowing, summer 2021

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Summary:

Sustainable, just, and equitable open access academic publishing may sometimes seem to be a utopia. There are just too many “buts” — “but the academic career depends on your scholarly output,” “but you have to publish in ‘high-ranking’ journals.” Yes, there is much to say about the injustices of the academic publishing system, and how we got there and the need for “high-level” action to change funding models and incentives. Yes, it may seem that there are just too many factors outside our control. But are they? Or could we imagine a future where scholars are the ones at the helm of the scholarly publishing ecosystem? In this contribution, we propose to do just that: imagine a different — fairer, more economically sustainable, and inclusive — approach to open access. However, to do that, we need to think not only outside the scope of existing business and publishing models but also the existing organisational models.

Link:

https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/o7rdo4yf/release/1

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Tags:

oa.publishers oa.platforms oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.floss oa.economics_of oa.dei oa.collective_action oa.collaboration oa.academic_led

Date tagged:

08/24/2021, 08:45

Date published:

08/24/2021, 04:48