Conviviality and standards: open access publishing after AI | Scottish Universities Press

Abstract: As new areas of academic research proliferate (and cross-pollinate), scholarly digital publishing makes it possible to grow online networks around research interests without relying on the slow, gate-keeping procedures of traditional print publishing. In this way, advances in digital technology continue to offer scholars a wider readership and more meaningful peer networks, but these benefits come at a cost. Without a reliable economic model, the labor of peer-reviewing, editing, formatting, distributing and marketing scholarly writing and research is, in many cases, taken on by the scholars themselves. Digital tools make publishing workflows considerably more efficient and faster, but the unpaid labor involved is still a hindrance to any sustainable models for publishing scholarly work.