Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care and the Commons - Couverture souple

Moore, Samuel A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472057634 ISBN 13 : 9780472057634

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2025

Synopsis

Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for scholarly communication. By deploying theoretical literature on science and technology studies, care ethics, and the commons, the book critically interrogates open access and re-imagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing. A case study of Plan S—the multi-funder European policy for OA publishing—explores its tendency to rehearse all the failures of commercialisation. Through critical engagement with the open access landscape, the book reveals the shortcomings of market-centric and policy-based approaches to open access book and journal publishing, particularly their tendency to reinforce conservatism, commercialism, and private control of publishing. Going forward, Publishing Beyond the Market explores the importance of collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access publishing. It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape through a series of presses that are each managed by working academics could offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access and subscription publishing. In weaving themselves together in order to “scale small” these publishing initiatives would act as a counter-hegemonic project based on mutual reliance and care. By illustrating how these projects build towards a commons-based publishing future, and how they may complement other approaches to publishing within university presses and libraries, the book culminates in an argument for the infrastructures, policies, and forms of governance needed to nurture such a collective vision.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Samuel A. Moore is the Scholarly Communication Specialist at Cambridge University Libraries, Associate Lecturer at Cambridge Digital Humanities, and College Research Associate at King's College, Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472057634
• ISBN 13: 9780472057634
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
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• Personne responsable: non disponible