Category: Free Knowledge
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The Monograph Crisis Revisited
Last week, on the 22nd of January, the report Monographs and Open Access, written by Geoffrey Crossick for HEFCE, was released. I would like to respond to the specific way in which the monograph crisis is described and represented in this report. I want to do so by emphasising the multiple dimensions as well as…
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Embracing Messiness
Last week, from the 12-14th of November, I attended The Post-Digital Scholar Conference. Publishing between Open Access, Piracy and Public Spheres, in Lüneburg, organised by the Hybrid Publishing Lab. I gave a paper in the panel ‘The Mess that Open Access has become’, organised by Andreas Kirchner, and including Armin Beverungen (Leuphana University), Martin Haspelmath…
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Entangled Knowledge Production
Last June, I gave a position paper on feminism, writing and academic publishing as part of a panel on Feminist Publishing, which was convened as part of a larger conference on Feminist Writing by Sarah Kember and Sarah Ahmed for Goldsmiths’ Centre for Feminist Research. The panel also included wonderful papers by Carol Stabile, Joe…
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#OAbooks in the HSS: Contexts, Conversations, Technologies and Communities of Practice
Last week I attended the first major conference entirely dedicated to Open Access books in the HSS, in the British Library, organised by OAPEN and JISC. The two-day conference had a fantastic line-up of keynote speakers, established and new experimental projects in open access book publishing, and practical strands on funding, publishing for scholars and…
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Open Media Research Seminars – Series 5
Tuesday the 23rd of October Nathaniel Tkacz will give the first talk in the fifth series of Research Seminars at Coventry University on ‘Open Media’. The seminar series is accompanied by a blog that provides more information about the speakers, the theme and the seminars. You can find it here. Underneath the full program for…
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Why experiment? A critical analysis of the values behind digital scholarly publishing
Last month I presented a paper entitled ‘Why Experiment? A Critical Analysis of the Values Behind Digital Scholarly Publishing’ at the 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris, France, July 4th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO. This presentation was part of the panel: ‘Publishing Cultural Studies, Now and in the Future’, with excellent papers…
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DOAB Discussion on Open Access Books
For more than a week now I have been moderating a wonderful discussion on Open Access books as part of wider user needs research for the DOAB (The Directory of Open Access Books). DOAB is a discovery service for Open Access monographs which provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under…
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Living Books about Life: Symbiosis
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/29665129] Together with Pete Woodbridge, I have edited a living book in the excellent new Open Humanities Press book series Living Books about Life, edited by Gary Hall, Joanna Zylinska and Clare Birchall. Our edited book, entitled Symbiosis: Ecologies, Assemblages and Evolution, brings together openly available science and humanities articles on symbiosis, complemented by…
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Full circle with Open Access Monographs
After a previous guest post where he developed an interesting forecast related to academic publishing, Ronald Snijder is back with his thoughts on Open Access monographs. You can reach him at r.snijder@aup.nl Full circle with Open Access Monographs When I look at publishing academic books in Open Access, the story surrounding it tends to…
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Remix Panel Discussion at CoDE
I am running a bit behind on my conference and symposium notes, but here are a few of my observations based on the screening of ‘RIP: A Remix Manifesto’, by Brett Gaylor, at CoDE a few weeks ago. I wrote about RIP before here and here. The screening was followed by an interesting panel discussion…