Individuation through infrastructure : Get Full Text Research, data extraction and the academic publishing oligopoly
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 31210287
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1108/JD-06-2020-0090
- Title of journal
- Journal of Documentation
- Article number
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- First page
- 129
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 0022-0418
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This article explores recent developments in academic publishing to provide ‘seamless access’ to scholarly content in a way that does not require continual authentication by the user. Through a critical analysis of the motivations for seamless access, with particular reference to a service developed by the world’s five largest publishers called Get Full Text Research, the article highlights how academic publishers are seeking to keep users within their individual proprietary walled gardens in order to surveil and monetise their behaviour. The article is theorised in accordance with Couldry and Mejias’ work on data colonialism to show how scholarly publishers are trying to create the conditions to amass as much user data as possible. The article therefore shows how infrastructural design for scholarly publishing reveals a shift in focus from the published content to the individual user, highlighting the potential for user surveillance. As a result of the article, the author was invited to speak at the Canadian Research Knowledge Network annual conference on open access and datafication.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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