Publishing beyond the market : open access, care, and the commons / Samuel A. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Samuel A.

Series:

Digital culture books.

Digital culture books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Open access publishing.

Scholarly publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2025.

Summary:

"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."

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: The Marketisation of Open Access

1. What Is the Relationship between Open Access Publishing and the Commons?

2. Plan S: Careless Policy Interventions into the Publishing Market

3. Radical Experiments in Scholar-Led Publishing

4. Infrastructuring the Open Access Publishing Commons

Conclusion: Beyond Open Access?

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-213) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0472905228

OCLC:

1493573183

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access