Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

Shearer, Kathleen; Chan, Leslie; Kuchma, Iryna; Mounier, Pierre

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“…It reinforces the need for research publications to be fully open at the time of publication and that is only done by ensuring that articles are openly licensed with Creative Commons licenses. More generally, the pandemic has reinforced the need for a diversity of approaches to publishing models ( Shearer et al, 2020 ) as well as a robust open infrastructure as championed by organization such as Invest in Open ( Invest in Open Infrastructure, n.d ) to support these models.…”

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Openness, Integrity, Inclusion, and Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Competing or Complementary Forces?

Barbour

2022

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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Section: Will Open Access To Research Endure Post Pandemic?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Openness, Integrity, Inclusion, and Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Competing or Complementary Forces?

Barbour

2022

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“…Second, the predominant voices in the library collection are to be Kenyan and African authors writing about the people and the region (Box 13.6). We (SM) are currently working on an acquisitions and collection policy that details how we hope to promote bibliodiversity (Shearer et al, 2020) in the collection, including authors and genres that we intentionally prioritise. And third, Book Bunk will use the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and other library cataloguing systems as inspiration for our own classification system that serves the needs of a modern Nairobi library more intuitively.…”

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“…Acknowledging this loss of trust in public systems and their agents is imperative for understanding the barriers to overcoming what Paulin Hountondji (1990) has labelled 'extroverted scientific activity', where scholarly work advances the theoretical needs and questions of the Western academy but does not serve the societies within which science is conducted. Individuals and library organisations alike, all of us, are increasingly caught within systems of platform capitalism (Srnicek, 2017) that establish dependencies that are hard to get out of and which reduce the possibilities of bibliodiversity (Shearer et al, 2020) and epistemic justice (Albornoz, Okune and Chan, 2020). Big tech, controlling the library, archive or data repository and mining its contents, would have us believe that they are best placed to reveal trends in data, from culture and thought to potential future pandemics.…”

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Re-membering Kenya: Building Library Infrastructures as Decolonial Practice

Mutonga¹,

Okune²

2022

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Box 13.3: Nairobi's libraries and archivesAlthough this chapter is featured in a collective volume focused on libraries, there are also references to archiving, because many of the libraries in Kenya also house or have housed archival collections.A crowdsourced map produced in 2019 of libraries and archives in Nairobi can be found at https://researchke.ushahidi.io/views/map. Though not comprehensive, it is a start to aggregating information about the diverse libraries in Kenya. This map contributed towards another, more comprehensive map of Nairobi public libraries and archives published by Book Bunk in 2021 (available at their website www.bookbunk.org).

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“…Many publishers look to increase the efficiency of their operations through technological scale and production processes that prioritise modularity and standardisation, meaning that the resulting publications can be reflective of a highly standardised production line approach (King, 2007). This process of technological scale and standardisation impacts cultures of publication, too, inhibiting differences of form, language, practice, and culture, or what is often understood as 'bibliodiversity' (Giménez Toledo et al, 2019;Shearer et al, 2020). It is a consolidation of infrastructure and publications that therefore results in a culture of sameness across scholarly communication.…”

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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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Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

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Openness, Integrity, Inclusion, and Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Competing or Complementary Forces?

Openness, Integrity, Inclusion, and Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Competing or Complementary Forces?

Re-membering Kenya: Building Library Infrastructures as Decolonial Practice

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

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