Liberation through Cooperation: How Library Publishing Can Save Scholarly Journals from Neoliberalism

Ghamandi, Dave Liberation through Cooperation: How Library Publishing Can Save Scholarly Journals from Neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2018, vol. 6, pp. 1-16. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This commentary examines political and economic aspects of open access (OA) and scholarly journal publishing. Through a discourse of critique, neoliberalism is analyzed as an ideology causing many problems in the scholarly journal publishing industry, including the serials crisis. Two major efforts in the open access movement that promote an increase in OA funded by article-processing charges (APC) —the Open Access 2020 (OA2020) and Pay It Forward (PIF) initiatives—are critiqued as neoliberal frameworks that would perpetuate existing systems of domination and exploitation. In a discourse of possibility, ways of building a post-neoliberal system of journal publishing using new tactics and strategies, merging theory and praxis, and grounding in solidarity and cooperation are presented. This includes organizing journal publishing democratically using cooperatives, which could decommodify knowledge and provide greater open access. The article concludes with a vision for a New Fair Deal, which would revolutionize the system of scholarly journal publishing by transitioning journals to library publishing cooperatives.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: library publishing; open access; neoliberalism; cooperatives; critical theory; critical librarianship; serials crisis; scholarly publishing
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BD. Information society.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BE. Information economics.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
E. Publishing and legal issues. > EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting.
E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
F. Management. > FA. Co-operation.
G. Industry, profession and education. > GA. Information industry.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
Depositing user: Nestor L. Osorio
Date deposited: 09 Sep 2018 22:51
Last modified: 09 Sep 2018 22:51
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/33418

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