Flipping to open access for survival: A librarian’s critical role in transforming a journal | Drabinski | College & Research Libraries News
lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-08-09
Summary:
Ultimately, the decision to move from closed to open access was a response to economic pressures, not political or moral ones. The problem of struggling to pay our production bills brought Radical Teacher to a decision point: we had to find another way. This crisis was an opportunity to lay bare the material conditions of our own production—that paper and ink and server space all cost money, that the market for our product was shrinking, that university presses were paying for their own reproduction through fees they were charging us.