Open and Engaged Conference 2020 - Inequities in Scholarly Communications
Open and Engaged Conference 2020 - Inequities in Scholarly Communications
Open and Engaged Conference 2020 - Inequities in Scholarly Communications
This one-day, online conference brought together speakers working in libraries, museums, archives and publishers to further highlight and explore a number of these avenues, to critically assess whether the purported benefits of more open scholarly communications have been realised, and where possible to present practical ways forward.
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Miles, Susan
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Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Knowledge Justice in the Digital Archive: The Exclusions of ‘Open’ / The Inclusions of ‘Closed’(2020-11)Allmann, KiraThe digital revolution has arguably made more information – otherwise locked away in the exclusionary spaces of libraries, archives, personal collections, and memory – more accessible to more people, who can now both contribute to and draw from remarkable digitized repositories of free content, like Wikipedia. The open data, software, and access movements have been influential in this ‘democratization’ of knowledge online. The sheer quantity (scale) of digital content and the participatory architecture of digital spaces can lend themselves to an underlying assumption that digital is more equitable, representative, and accessible than the analog processes that mediated knowledge in the past. But as we rely ever more heavily on online knowledge repositories today, it is especially crucial to ask who and what is included in these new, virtual collections. And what is missing? Today, nearly half the world remains offline, so we know that access to and creation of digital content is not equal. This talk addresses digital inequality in terms of ‘knowledge justice’ – the equal participation, representation, and visibility of different forms of knowledge online. It starts at the level of marginalized communities and asks: when is ‘open’ exclusionary? And when does ‘closed’ offer opportunities for self-determination and empowerment?2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Open or Ajar? And How We Blow The B****Y Doors Off!(2020-11)2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Small and Medium Size Academic Publishers Matter!(2020-11-29)Giménez Toledo, EleaBeyond the large publishing groups, with huge catalogs of international books and journals published in English and with extensive presence in academic institutions around the world, the small and medium size academic publishing houses exist. These publishers are concerned with building catalogs that cover global issues but also local ones. They are publishing in the different languages of each country, trying to reach the closest readers with their contents and addressing topics that international profile publishers do not deal with. Thus helping to solve nearby problems and, therefore, making science connect with society. With small teams, very tight budgets and traditional models of publishing, they find few opportunities to face the digital transformation and the path towards open access. This group of publishers, which exists in each country, is quite unknown and very little recognized. However, it is necessary to look at them: small and medium sized publishers are guarantors of diversity in research and multilingualism in scientific communication.2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Social Justice Driven Open Access Bridging The Information Divide(2020-11-26)Raju, Reggie“Open access is not only access and consumption but also and above all, production and dissemination...…[and] has the potential to contribute to and foster local research and development” Schà¶pfel (2017). The open access (OA) movement has been hailed in Africa as a significant contributor to its development as it opens access to scholarly literature which is critical for development. However, the current trajectory of the OA movement is devoid of the principles of development. And, the absence of a social justice underpinning reaffirms the status quo. The continued global north dominance of the OA movement negates the transformation of scholarly communication as the northernised publishing landscape remains unchanged with global south scholarship ‘retaining’ its relegation to the periphery of the world’s knowledge production. There is very little debate that the publishing industry has captured the OA movement with the rollout of article processing charges. Influential institutions such as the Max Planck Society and major funders are pandering to these cartels of commercial publishers. The introduction of transformative agreements may be a solution for the afore mentioned however, it is a death nail for Africa. What Africa needs are transformational agreements, that is, agreements that transforms scholarly communication resulting in the denorthernisation of the publishing landscape, the inclusion of the marginalised research voices and the opening of channels for the improved dissemination of African scholarship. This presentation will take a transformative world view of OA, a view that is driven by social justice priorities and equity principles for inclusion resulting in the growth and development of society.1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Inequities in Scholarly Communications(2020-11-25)Roh, CharlotteIn today's political climate, we are well aware, if we weren't before, that inequities exist at all levels of society. This is true also in scholarly communications, which despite its many changes in the last few decades, still adheres to traditional values and structures. This talk offers a broad overview of how inequities exist within the traditional values and structures of academic publishing and scholarly communication, as well as some efforts to address these issues.2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Decolonising the Archive: Questions, Problems and Solutions?(2020-11-30)Bennett, MelissaThose working on or with colonial archives and collections face a number of challenges arising from the historical contexts of these materials: where they came from, how they were brought together (or separated), and who has been their custodian. In these circumstances, it is important that contemporary professionals do not repeat or entrench the mistakes of the past. Nowadays, there are seemingly simple solutions to some of the problems that we come across. Firstly, we must share the archives we use or care for with the people to whom they relate, allowing them to access what was lost or in most cases taken from them. Secondly, we have a responsibility to re-connect archives that have been dispersed and disrupted by colonialism. Finally, we have to write responsibly: whether that's in our books and research papers or our catalogues. However, in 'solving' the problems raised by colonial archives and collections, are we creating new problems for ourselves and for future generations? Can the archive actually be decolonised?4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Using Open Source Tools to Decolonize Map Archives: The Case of Palestine Open Maps(2020-11)Al-Shihabi, MajdAn essential part of the colonial process was mapping the colonies: to know their historical and spatial characteristics as a prelude to conquering them (Abu Sitta, 2004). The maps produced through those processes now sit in various archives, and often serve as a snapshot of the spatial layout of those regions during the colonial period. The Palestine Open Maps project uses the collaborative tools of OpenStreetMap to extract data from historical maps in mapathon events, and explores the liberatory power of open data by engaging the people represented by those maps in the mapping process.2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), Scaling Small: Enabling a More Diverse Ecosystem for Scholarly Book Publishing(2020-11-27)Adema, JannekeThis presentation provides an overview of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project (https://www.copim.ac.uk/), which is dedicated to the creation of robust and resilient infrastructures, workflows, business models, governance structures, and reuse and preservation strategies for the publication of open access books. It will focus on how we can improve the diversity in the scholarly publishing landscape by addressing the hurdles that stand in the way of new and existing, not-for-profit and scholar-led presses publishing books openly. It will also outline how we can improve the engagement with books in the Humanities and Social Sciences by publishing openly and by stimulating reuse and uptake of our books and book collections. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Conference paper (unpublished), For Whom Should Science Be Opened?(2020-11)Chan, LeslieLeslie Chan invites us to consider the uncritical acceptance of openness, proposing that there is no universal concept of open as the concept does not address how knowledge is created, shared and circulated in different communities and different contexts. Leslie advocates for a need to decenter whiteness in both academic institutions and publishing, arguing that the standards of white patriarchal structures continue to exclude many voices from the scientific record and raising questions such as “who is deciding whom to include?” and “Inclusion into what?”.