Social Problems of Scholarly Communication | History of Scholarly Communication

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-06-27

Summary:

"I’ve been reflecting on a few recent articles and meetings lately that have focused on problems in scholarly communication.  In particular, I’m thinking about Micah Vandegrift’s recent post on Open Knowledge where he suggests that open knowledge is about “creating a new academic value system for/as a public good.”  This is certainly a laudable goal, but contrasts with an editorial on a journal from the American Anthropological Association which observes that the association’s journal is viewed as a money-making effort to subsidize work of the organization.  Similarly an article focusing on the UK perspective and advocating for a definition of scholarship similar to Vandegrift’s, points out that, “Universities in the UK are increasingly adopting corporate governance structures, a consumerist model of teaching and learning.”  Overall, it seems like there is a major divide here.  On the one hand practicing scholars (certainly not all of them but enough) see their research as a private good, and on the other hand, members of the open access community (myself included) would like to see knowledge become a public good.  As a historian of scholarly communication and as a citizen who cares about education and access to knowledge, I have to ask myself, why does this divide exist?..."

Link:

https://histscholcomm.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/social-problems-of-scholarly-communication/

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oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.definitions oa.principles oa.authors oa.advocacy oa.history_of oa.debates

Date tagged:

06/27/2018, 14:43

Date published:

06/27/2018, 10:43