Ghamandi, D.S., (2018).
Liberation through Cooperation: How Library Publishing Can Save
Scholarly Journals from Neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and
Scholarly Communication. 6(2), p.eP2223. DOI: http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2223
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.
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