New special issue of @JEPub@hcommons.social on open research for the humanities and social sciences. It's co-edited by Jenni Adams, Miranda Barnes and me as part of the MORPHSS project. We also designed a fun open review process for the issue that you can read about in the introduction.
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Samuel Moore
@Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Scholarly communication specialist and researcher at Cambridge University Libraries and King's College Cambridge. Associate of Cambridge Digital Humanities.
Book underway for University of Michigan Press on open access publishing and the commons.
Researching: academic publishing, open research, community governance, digital commons
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I'm going to try to use this space for my research-related stuff, rather than my usual shitposting about academic publishing (pinning this as a note to self).
Posts will also delete after a few weeks.
There has to be a better way to work through commercial AI extraction than this conservative drivel
"Senior administrators must do more than issue statements supporting open access. They must embed publishing reform into the core governance of academic life."
The main problem with this piece is that it takes for granted that university leadership cares about the ills of commercialisation. I don't think it's sensible to assume that the university as an institution is on the side of grassroots academics in many matters.
"The enshittification story, at its most powerful, describes a process by which platforms that once served users well came to exploit them. But this framing assumes a prior state of genuine service, a golden age of the open internet, that was for many people never particularly golden. The early internet was structured around the assumptions of its architects: predominantly white, male, Western, educated, and abled. The exclusions weren't mere flaws; they were perhaps, if we're being generous, deeply structural tendencies that were never seriously interrogated".
https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/
"Cataloguing and theorising open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Problematising and diversifying ‘Open Science’"
New preprint from some of us in the MORPHSS project.
“The result is a publish-or-perish culture that rewards quantity over quality and creates a ready market for shortcuts when speed and quantity displace rigor or reproducibility,”
New from me: Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing
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@jeroenbosman yeah, definitely possible. Their statement makes me think they're not interested in that though.