sam moore
Critical publishing studies. PhD from @kingsdh. open access・commons・critical theory・scholarly communication ・@RadicalOA
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What is the relationship between the commons and open access publishing?
Why is there an association between open access publishing and ‘the commons’? What is it about the two concepts that implies they are linked? I’m currently researching the relationship between the commons and OA, looking specifically at the...
sam moore
What is the relationship between the commons and open access publishing?
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Back at the kitchen table: Reflections on decolonising and internationalising with the Global South socio-legal writing workshops
It has been three years since we held the Feminism, Legality and Knowledge (FLaK) seminar to respond to our developing frustrations and excitement around feminist legal studies and academic...
sam moore
'Back at the kitchen table: Reflections on decolonising and internationalising with the Global South socio-legal writing workshops' from the editors of Feminist Legal Studies link.springer.com/article/10.100… pic.twitter.com/u5fpBRCva6
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A genealogy of open access: negotiations between openness and acces...
Introduction and Methodology The concept of open access (OA) resonates differently between communities of practice. Broadly speaking, it refers to the removal of price and permission restrictions t...
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@CameronNeylon @reprofan journals.openedition.org/rfsic/3220 (I assume you meant to include this link...)
11d
Do monographs have a future? Publishers, funders and research evaluators must decide
The future of the academic monograph has been questioned for over two decades. At the heart of this ‘monograph crisis’ has been a publishing industry centred on the print publication of monographs …
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sam moore
I’m unconvinced that ‘evaluation’ is the best motivation for improving infrastructures for digital monographs. Books are already valued — we do not need systems of assessment to tell us this.
12d
The open access mandate: Be careful what you wish for - Bruno Agustini, Michael Berk,
sam moore
This sentence is a masterpiece, right down to the hyphen in 'post-modern'.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… pic.twitter.com/jzxpN1zI2l
20d
The British Academy response misrepresents Plan S and OA
The British Academy has responded to the revised Plan S consultation. It’s nice of them to grudgingly accept there have been some improvements but I remain dismayed by the continued misrepresentation of Plan S within their documents. I will here...
The battle for the commons in neoliberal Colombia
The local struggle to protect the Rio Blanco ecological reserve epitomizes the resistance against the destructive impact of decades of neoliberal development.
Rinse and Repeat: Understanding the Value of Replication across Different Ways of Knowing
The increasing pursuit of replicable research and actual replication of research is a political project that articulates a very specific technology of accountability for science. This project was initiated in response to concerns about the openness...
sam moore
This article from Penders, @jbrittholbrook & @sarahderijcke on the limits of the term 'replication' is relevant here too
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I hate open science
Now that I’ve got your attention: what I hate—and maybe dislike is a better term than hate—isn’t the open science community, or open science initiatives, or open science practices, or o…
sam moore
probably should also mention that it's something of a response to @talyarkoni's recent post
32d
Why 'open science' is actually pretty good politics
How does the word ‘open’ modify terms such as ‘data’, ‘source’ ‘access’ and ‘science’? What is openness actually doing to these terms? This seems to be a subject of continual debate on social media, at conferences and in the scholarly literature....
Generous Worlds: Rethinking the Fate of the American University
Ryan Boyd reviews Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.”
sam moore
It's interesting to see how different reviewers negotiate Fitzpatrick's call for generous thinking
34d
Governing the scholarly commons: the Radical Open Access Collective
The Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC) is a community of 60+ not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. One of the aims of the collective is to legitimise scholar-led publishing as an important alternative model for open...
sam moore
New post on encouraging mutual reliance through governance in the Radical Open Access Collective
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The future of scientific publishing - Sarr - 2019 - BJS - Wiley Online Library
BJS is the official publication of the ASGBI and is the premier peer-reviewed surgical journal in Europe.
sam moore
There are so many fear-mongering articles about open access written by editors of commercial journals. But this one is the platonic form
42d
Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018
Amazon avoids paying federal tax — for the second year in a row, according to a new report.