Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences

Pia, Andrea E.; Batterbury, Simon; Joniak‐Lüthi, Agnieszka; LaFlamme, Marcel; Wielander, Gerda; Zerilli, Filippo Massimo; Nolas, Melissa; Schubert, Jon; Loubere, Nicholas; Franceschini, Ivan; Walsh, Cormac; Mora, Agathe; Varvantakis, Christos

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“…The Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC) 12 was founded in 2016 as a way to build resilience between the many and various scholar-led publishers that have emerged and increased in popularity since the mid-2000s (Adema and Moore, 2017). These presses are mainly scholarled, in the sense that they are managed by working academics, often doing so as a labour of love (Pia et al, 2020) and usually with little to no remuneration or formalised, sustainable funding models (Adema and Moore, 2018;Adema and Stone, 2017). While it may not be the intention of each scholar-led press to grow -or even necessarily to publish regularly, consistently, or in the long term -there is value in building mutual reliance and sharing expertise with one another, as the collective hopes to do (Barnes, 2020).…”

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“…Presses and organisations have been founded with bibliodiverse aims in mind, often predicated upon providing OA to knowledge (Adema and Stone, 2017). Many of these operations are community-led and operate on a shoestring or with no budget at all, relying instead on gifted time of working academics based on a labour of love and commitment to their discipline (Pia et al, 2020). Others may have business models that prioritise care 1 and situated forms of publishing over standardisation and technological efficiency, and therefore do not routinely take advantage of the economies of scale upon which commercial publishers rely.…”

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Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production

Adema

Moore

2021

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

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Within the field of open access (OA) publishing, community-led publishing projects are experimenting increasingly with new forms of collaboration and organisation. They do so by focusing on setting up horizontal alliances between independent projects within a certain sector (e.g., scholar-led presses), or vertically across sectors with other not-for-profit organisations (e.g., through collaborations with libraries, universities, and funders), in order to create multi-stakeholder ecologies within scholarly publishing. Yet at the same time, imaginaries for future modes of OA knowledge production are still controlled through demands for 'scalability' and 'sustainability', which are both seen as preconditions for scholarly communication models and practices to succeed and to be efficient. But they are also prerequisites to receive funding for publishing projects or infrastructure development.The scalability of open models is perceived as essential to compete in a landscape dominated by a handful of major corporate players.Drawing on our work with the Radical Open Access Collective, the ScholarLed consortium, and the Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, this article outlines an alternative organisational principle for governing community-led publishing projects based on mutual reliance, care, and other forms of commoning. Termed 'scaling small', this principle eschews standard approaches to organisational growth that tend to flatten community diversity through economies of scale. Instead, it puts forward the idea that scale can be nurtured through intentional collaborations between community-driven projects that promote a bibliodiverse ecosystem while providing resilience through resource sharing and other kinds of collaboration. Following Anna Tsing's recommendations to keep in mind how reimagining our knowledge practices requires we pay particular attention to articulations between the scalable and the nonscalable (Tsing, 2012), what is needed to enable this is, first and foremost, a rethinking of existing systems and infrastructures and how they currently function -systems that have historically developed and been continuously remade to encourage further scalability. We further explore the possibilities of scaling small with particular reference to Anna Tsing's work on the 'latent commons' and Massimo De Angelis' discussion of 'boundary commoning', examining how these concepts are on display within the Radical Open Access Collective, ScholarLed and the COPIM project. As we will argue, reimagining the relations within publishing beyond a mere calcula-

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Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production

Adema

Moore

2021

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

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“…This process also requires more investment on the part of the infrastructure's community, who would need to manage this peer review (Tennant et al 2017). In academic publishing, how this labour is rewarded remains contested, as does the question of how labour is rewarded in community-owned infrastructures in diverse contexts (Hendricks et al 2020;Pia et al 2020). Because the dataARC infrastructure is already, in the judgement of the project team, one that requires a high level of effort by data contributors, any adaptations that imply additional work should be considered carefully.…”

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A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research

Opitz¹,

Strawhacker²,

Buckland³

et al. 2021

Internet Archaeol.

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The North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) community initiated dataARC to develop digital research infrastructures to support their work on long-term human-ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. These infrastructures were designed to address the challenges of sharing research data, the connections between those data and high-level interpretations, and the interpretations themselves. In parallel, they were also designed to support the reuse of diverse data that underpin transdisciplinary synthesis research and to contextualise materials disseminated widely to the public more firmly in their evidence base. This article outlines the research infrastructure produced by the project and reflects on its design and development. We outline the core motivations for dataARC's work and introduce the tools, platforms and (meta)data products developed. We then undertake a critical review of the project's workflow. This review focuses on our understanding of the needs of stakeholder groups, the principles that guided the design of the infrastructure, and the extent to which these principles are successfully promoted in the current implementation. Drawing on this assessment, we consider how the infrastructure, in whole or in part, might be reused by other transdisciplinary research communities. Finally, we highlight key socio-technical gaps that may emerge as structural barriers to transdisciplinary, engaged, and open research if left unaddressed.

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“…Open Access (OA) in all its varieties has transformed the production and circulation of scientific knowledge, and it possesses the potential to do so in an even more profound mannerfor better or worse. 1 Presumably, OA will become the default option in scholarly publishing during the next decade (Pia et al 2020). This provides some hope that we are exiting the 'worst of all possible worlds' when it comes to academic knowledge production (Beverungen, Böhm, and Land 2012).…”

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Political economy of Plan S: a post-foundational perspective on Open Access

Sundell

2021

Political Research Exchange

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Plan S, promoted by cOAlition S, is a significant attempt to hegemonize a specific form of Open Access (OA) as the future of academic publishing on a global level. It mandates that the results from Coalition-funded research must be published in fora compliant with its criteria. This article questions the Plan's supposed radicalness from a political economy perspective with the help of post-foundational discourse theory. Specific attention will be paid to its implications for property rights as the contingent foundation of knowledge production. The Plan and OA will be examined within the context of globally unequal structures of scientific knowledge production and attempts to transform them into a more equal system. The analyzed data consist of the archive from the following sequence: (i) the publication of draft guidance on the implementation of the Plan, released by the Coalition in November 2018, (ii) a collection of feedback statements on the draft by the Coalition from November 2018 to February 2019, and (iii) release of the updated guidance adopted and published by the Coalition in May 2019. The primary object of analysis is the antagonism articulated towards the Plan within what is here termed the conservativepropertarian discursive formation.

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Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences

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Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production

Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production

A Lockpick's Guide to dataARC: Designing Infrastructures and Building Communities to Enable Transdisciplinary Research

Political economy of Plan S: a post-foundational perspective on Open Access

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