Reassembling scholarly publishing: Institutional repositories, open access, and the process of change

Kennan, Mary Anne and Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka Reassembling scholarly publishing: Institutional repositories, open access, and the process of change., 2007 . In 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Toowoomba (Australia), 5-7 December 2007. [Conference paper]

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The domain of scholarly publishing is undergoing rapid change. Change has been instigated and produced by the Internet and open access systems – such as disciplinary and institutional repositories and open access journals. However traditional scholarly publishing is strengthening its hold over prestigious journals thus resisting change. How then does the change come about? An attempt at answering this question led us to examine an institutional repository initiative in a University. As we identified and followed the actors (researchers, research papers, reward systems, institutional repository technology, library staff, RQF, etc.) we saw the emergence of new publishing practices and the forces preserving the old ones. By adopting Actor Network Theory (ANT) we came to understand the materiality, relationality and ambiguity of processes of reassembling scholarly publishing. This paper presents preliminary results and thereby informs a wider debate and shaping of open access and scholarly publishing.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Open Access; Institutional repositories; Actor-Network Theory; Scholarly Publishing
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BZ. None of these, but in this section.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
Depositing user: Mary Anne Kennan
Date deposited: 05 Jun 2008
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:11
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/11651

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