{"id":4213,"date":"2021-06-04T13:35:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2021-06-04T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:35:01","slug":"4213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/?p=4213","title":{"rendered":"New Article: “Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In March the article Sam Moore and I wrote on “scaling small” as an alternative organisational prin\u00adciple for governing community-led publishing projects (see abstract below) was published in the journal Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture<\/em>, as part of a WPCC special issue on \u2018Publishing, the Internet and the Commons\u2019, guest edited by Andrew Lockett. The full special issue has now been published here: https:\/\/www.westminsterpapers.org\/issue\/111\/info\/<\/a>. It includes and editorial by Lockett and articles by Christian Fuchs and Melanie Dulong de Rosnay as well as interviews with Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder and with Martin Eve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2018scalability\u2019 and \u2018sustainability\u2019, which are both seen as preconditions for scholarly communication models and practices to succeed and to be efficient. But they are also prerequi\u00adsites 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 Mono\u00adgraphs (COPIM) project, this article outlines an alternative organisational prin\u00adciple for governing community-led publishing projects based on mutual reliance, care, and other forms of commoning. Termed \u2018scaling small\u2019, 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 pro\u00adjects that promote a bibliodiverse ecosystem while providing resilience through resource sharing and other kinds of collaboration. Following Anna Tsing\u2019s recom\u00admendations 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 \u2013 systems that have historically developed and been continuously remade to encourage fur\u00adther scalability. We further explore the possibilities of scaling small with particular reference to Anna Tsing\u2019s work on the \u2018latent commons\u2019 and Massimo De Angelis\u2019 discussion of \u2018boundary commoning\u2019, 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\u00adtive logic, i.e., one that is focused on assessing the sustainability of alternative models, is essential in not-for-profit OA publishing environments, particularly if we want new forms of collaboration to arise and to redefine the future of scholarly publishing in communal settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keywords:<\/strong> scholarly communications, care, scaleability, sustainability, commoning, open access publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Cite:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adema J. & Moore S. A., (2021) \u201cScaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production\u201d, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture<\/em> 16(1). p.27-45. doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16997\/wpcc.918<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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