Open Access Publishing as a Para-Academic Proposition: OA as Labour Relation

Boshears, Paul

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“…David Golumbia, for instance, writes that "[o]ne searches OA literature in vain for discussions of the labor issues" (Golumbia 2016). While some OA advocates may indeed disregard this issue and wish for the destruction of academic publishers, Golumbia has clearly not searched the literature as thoroughly as he claims, as articles by Paul Boshears (2013), Emily Drabinski and Korey Jackson (2015), Christopher Kelty (2014), andmyself (2014a, 62-7;2014c, 2016 have all directly addressed this issue.…”

Section: Humanities Economics 101mentioning

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Open Access in the Humanities Disciplines

EVE¹

2022

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities

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It is easy to overlook the magnitude of change involved in the shift to the digital publication of scholarship. In moving all costs to first copy and reducing those of all subsequent versions to almost zero, digital publication, when coupled with academic systems of remuneration, carries to some startling logical conclusions. Namely: that if we can find a way to pay for all the labor of publishing the first copy, we could give anybody access to read the published version, without having to charge them. This is called "open access" (OA) and it refers to conditions under which peer-reviewed scholarship is made free to read and free to re-use with attribution (for the seminal work on this subject, see Suber 2012).Open access was formalized in approximately 2002, with the triple signing of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (Chan et al. 2002; "Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities" 2003;Suber et al. 2003). Each of these declarations, in its own way, notes that there are educational benefits in allowing people to read work without having to pay. These range from ensuring that the poorest in the world can have access to the scientific literature to ensuring that interested third parties can read about their own histories without facing unaffordable subscription fees. The last of these declarations, in particular, specifies that these benefits can be found across all disciplines: in the sciences and the humanities.There are several pieces of terminology around open access that are worth spelling out up front. OA comes in different "color" flavors. Green open access refers to conditions under which an author publishes in a journal and then deposits their author's accepted manuscript (or later version if permitted) in an institutional or subject repository. This is the version of open access that the UK's Research Excellence Framework uses. It does so since the predecessor to Research England, HEFCE, found that 96 percent of journal articles submitted in REF2014 could have been made openly accessible under this route (Poynder 2015). That is, many publishers have liberal policies that will allow academics to deposit a version of their paper for open dissemination. However, the green route often does not provide access to the version of record (the final PDF of a paper, for instance). There is, then, a further strand of open access, called gold open access, in which the publisher makes material openly available at source. This could mean that, for instance, a user lands Open Access in the Humanities Disciplines MARTIN PAUL EVE (BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Much of this chapter is an update of Eve 2014a.

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Section: Humanities Economics 101mentioning

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Open Access in the Humanities Disciplines

EVE¹

2022

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities

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“…The researcher had the singular aim (Eklund, 2022, p. 6) "to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of approaching and negotiating professional jurisdiction from the viewpoint of academic librarians developing library services for researchers". In other words, she was interested not simply in the roles of librarians in supporting research and serving researchers, but more significantly in the potential for changes in the division of labour for and territorial claims to research activities among two categories of '"professionals" in the academy, namely academic researchers and library practitioners, in the context of radical, ongoing change in scientific research and scholarly communication in tandem with the blurring and in some cases near erosion of boundaries among professionals working in higher education and more broadly between professionals and nonspecialists/laypeople (including the public) -a trend that has been widely documented in the literature of higher education and given rise to terms such as "para-academic" and "democratic", "blended" and "third-space" professional (Boshears, 2013;Macfarlane, 2011;Dzur, 2008;2020;Whitchurch 2008;2009).…”

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Academic librarianship in flux

Corrall

2023

NJLIS

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Academic librarianship has been "in flux" for decades. According to the Chicago sociologist Andrew Abbott, whose 1988 System of Professions frames the present thesis, the work of librarians is "perpetually changing" (Abbott, 1998, p. 434). Each decade adds new challenges. In the 1970s the "self-renewing library" (steady state, zero growth) was posited as the answer to capacity problems.In the 1980s we had the serials crisis. The 1990s brought us the electronic library (and the "hybrid library"), which shifted our focus in the 2000s to information literacy and learner support. Next came the (big) data decade, when the pendulum swung back from teaching to research and library responses to developments in scholarly communication, research impact measures and networked data-driven science. Pieta Eklund uses the development of library services for researchers as the focus of her doctoral study, but her particular interest is in how librarians negotiate their roles not just as supporting actors but as upfront partners in the complex process of academic research.

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Re-Imagining the Art School

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Open Access Publishing as a Para-Academic Proposition: OA as Labour Relation

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