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Transmuting open access: towpaths for nurturing Diamond ecologies

Hopkins, Kira and Sanders, Kevin Transmuting open access: towpaths for nurturing Diamond ecologies., 2024 [Preprint]

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The decade since the Bottlenecks in the Open Access System special issue of JLSC in 2014 has been an expansive one for open access (OA). The creation of a scholarly publishing ecosystem that enables works to be freely accessible for readers has been successful in many ways. However, the underlying politics and economics of OA scholarly publishing often remain opaque (Lawson, Smith, and Sanders, 2015). The problems with journal OA funding discussed by Bonaccorso et al. (2014) in their contribution to that issue have also increased and become entrenched. This entrenchment has been largely via the growth and consolidation of Gold OA, ‘transformative’ agreements, and read-and-publish journal deals, which have effectively, and unnecessarily, commodified OA publications to the detriment of scholars and the libraries who support them

Item type:	Preprint
Keywords:	Open Access, Open Access Books, Diamond Open Access, Community-Led Publishing, Libraries as Funders, Open Infrastructure
Subjects:	D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries. E. Publishing and legal issues. E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
Depositing user:	Dr Kira Hopkins
Date deposited:	16 Jun 2025 13:24
Last modified:	16 Jun 2025 13:24
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/45941

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