Tag: radical 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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Registration for Radical Open Access II – The Ethics of Care now open
Radical Open Access II – The Ethics of Care Two days of critical discussion about creating a more diverse and equitable future for open access The Post Office Coventry University June 26-27 2018 Organised by Coventry University’s postdigital arts and humanities research studio The Post Office, a project of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures Find out more at: http://radicaloa.co.uk/conferences/roa2/…
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Reblog: The Radical Open Access Collective: building alliances for a progressive, scholar-led commons
Underneath a blogpost Samuel Moore and I wrote, which was originally published on the LSE Impact Blog, here. The Radical Open Access Collective launched its new website earlier this week. Open access has always been about more than just improving access to research, and Janneke Adema and Samuel A. Moore here highlight what the Radical OA Collective can offer.…
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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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The Rise of New University Presses and Academic-Led Presses in the UK
Reblog from the Jisc Library & scholarly futures blog blog post by Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Graham Stone (Jisc) and Chris Keene (Jisc) Our new report: Changing publishing ecologies: A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing maps the rise of new university presses and academic-led presses in the UK The landscape of academic publishing has seen…
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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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Radical Open Access and The Politics of Publishing. A Genealogy of Affinities and Correlations
A bit belated (I will be uploading some talks I gave during the last months in the next few days), underneath the paper I gave at the Radical Open Access conference, which we hosted at Coventry University 15-16th of June. The videos from this event will be available soon, and I will announce them here…
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Radical Open Access Conference
Coventry University 15th – 16th of June 2015 Two days of critical discussion and debate in support of an ‘alternative’ vision for open access and scholarly communication. The aim of the conference is to explore some of the intellectually and politically exciting ways of understanding open access that are currently available internationally. A particular emphasis…
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New Models of Knowledge Production. Open Access Publishing and Experimental Research Practices (Part II)
Chapter 5 of my thesis focuses on opportunities to intervene in the current cultures of knowledge production in academia and publishing, exploring efforts to rethink and re-perform the institutions surrounding the material production of the book, as well as our own entangled scholarly communication and publishing practices. I focus in particular in this chapter on…
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Critical Keywords for the Digital Humanities: Open Access
The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at Leuphana University recently started releasing a collection of keywords (from post-media to copyfight), as part of its Critical Keywords for the Digital Humanities project. I was invited to submit a contribution on open access, which you can find underneath. All the keywords are available at the CDC website…
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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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Performative Publications
Last spring I worked on a project together with 2nd year design students Nabaa Baqir, Mila Spasova and Serhan Curti to create an alternative take on, or an artist’s book out of the article ‘The political nature of the book. On artists’ books and radical open access’, which was written by myself and Gary Hall…