Revisiting “the 1990s debutante”: Scholar‐led publishing and the prehistory of the open access movement
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 30879353
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1002/asi.24306
- Title of journal
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
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- First page
- 856
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 7
- ISSN
- 2330-1635
- Open access status
- Technical exception
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The movement for open access publishing is often said to have originated in the sciences, reflecting scientific norms through article-processing charges, quantitative metrics and a preference for journal publishing. By complicating this picture, this article shows the influence of the humanities on the development of the early open access movement. The article explores the pre-history of open access through analysis of the motivations and practices of digital, scholar-led journals on the early Web, including Surfaces, The Bryn Mawr Classical Review and Postmodern Culture. Through critical analysis of a number of editorials and research articles from these early digital journals, the article puts forward an argument that this ecosystem of digital journals is an unacknowledged precursor to the open access movement. The argument foregrounds the importance of critical scholar-led journals in the humanities and social science in the establishment of this movement and thus complicates our understanding of the movement’s supposed positivist scientific origins.
As a development of the theory of scholar-led publishing, the article has contributed to the discourse around scholar-led forms of open access that have been popularized in recent years through projects such as the Radical Open Access Collective and the Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, the latter of which being funded £3.6 million by the Arcadia Foundation and Research England. The author participates in these projects through his research at Coventry University. Furthermore, as a result of his expertise on scholar-led publishing, Moore has been invited to speak about scholar-led publishing through guest lectures at King’s College London, City University and The Sorbonne.
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- Non-English
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