Category: Free Knowledge
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New COPIM Report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books
Two weeks ago we released a new COPIM research report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books: Strategies for Publishers and Authors. The report has been written by Samuel Moore, Tobias Steiner, and myself. This three-part research and scoping report has been created as a (evolving) resource for the scholarly community, especially for publishers…
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ScholarLed/ROAC Virtual Book Stand
Available at: http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/latest-publications/ Formed in 2015, the Radical Open Access Collective (https://radicaloa.co.uk/) is an international community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. Now consisting of more than 60 members, we promote a progressive vision for open publishing in the humanities and social sciences. Formed in 2018 ScholarLed (https://scholarled.org/) is a consortium of…
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Paper Struggles & Public Library and the Property Form
An exhibition and seminar at: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, London, E1 7LS Exhibition, ‘Paper Struggles’, opening: Monday, 9 December, 18.30-21.00 Continues: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December, 11.00-21.00 Seminar, ‘Public Library and the Property Form’: Tuesday 10 December, 10.30-13.30 Guest speakers: Balász Bodó & Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Seminar registration: http://tiny.cc/public_library ‘Paper Struggles’ This exhibition documents how struggles over…
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Emergent Creativity
I have a new chapter out on ‘The Ethics of Emergent Creativity: Can We Move Beyond Writing as Human Enterprise, Commodity and Innovation?’ in the collection Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity edited by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember. This volume has been published in open access…
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One Year Later
Last year, during open access week, the Radical Open Access Collective re-launched with a new website, a directory of academic-led presses and an information platform for OA (book) publishing. We would like to share with you some of ROAC’s highlights for this year. Let us know if we’ve missed something or if there is anything…
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New article: Performative Publications
Published in the disrupted Journal of Media practice (more on this collaboratively edited special issue here) is my latest article on ‘Performative Publications’. This experimental and processual article is available in various different versions. Underneath the abstract and the introduction to ‘Performative Publications’, which explain in more detail the context of this research project…
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Radical OA Website Launched
The new and updated website for the Radical Open Access Collective website has now officially been launched! https://radicaloa.co.uk Formed in 2015, the Radical OA Collective is a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the humanities and social sciences. We represent an alternative open access ecosystem and seek to create…
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During our time at the Triangle SCI Institute 2016 in Chapel Hill, our team (consisting of Samuel Moore, Sherri Barnes, Donna Lanclos, Stuart Lawson, Eileen Joy and Janneke Adema) primarily came together with a strong motivation to think through what a not-for-profit and non-platform based alternative to social researching sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate…
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Culture Machine Liquid Books, Volume 9: Really, We’re Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files
Image Credit: CC-BY: Linda N. from Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22748341@N00/361025310/ We are pleased to announce Volume 9 in the Culture Machine Liquid Book Series, published by Open Humanities Press: Really, We’re Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files. This book can be accessed here: http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/106236504/The%20Academia_edu%20Files Really, We’re Helping To Build This . .…
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Videos ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu’ Symposium Now Online
In view of the current discussion taking place over Academia.edu’s introduction of an ‘article recommendation charge’, and the subsequent #DeleteAcademiaEdu hashtag, we thought you might be interested in this: Last month The Centre for Disruptive Media (http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/) at Coventry University organised a symposium on academic social networking platforms called ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?’ Chaired…
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Radical Open Access Conference – Videos Online
In June of last year the Radical Open Access Conference (http://radicalopenaccess.disruptivemedia.org.uk/) took place at Coventry University, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media (disruptivemedia.org.uk) The videos of the various panels are now available underneath and on archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/@disruptive_media The conference gathered together a large community of presses, projects and thinkers exploring some of the more…
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In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
:::::::::::::::::: contact: little.prince@custodians.online In Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed. He owns only a flower, which he waters every day. Three volcanoes, which he cleans every week. “It is of some…