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A publication of the Knowledge Futures Group
A space to discuss the digital infrastructure, policies, and cultures needed to distribute, constellate, and amplify knowledge for the public good.
summer 2021 series
The Business of Knowing: Bringing about [infra]structural change to knowledge communication
A letter from the editors
Looking at the past to learn from mistakes and make a better future
Infrastructures are more than the tools we use, they are a part of the process and we trust them to function properly.
Transforming organizations to be more community-focused and -owned
Implementing coops as a way to challenge and change value in the scholarly publishing ecosystem
Integrating process into scholarly practices of reading, writing, and knowledge production
Bringing funding back to the community by focusing on mission alignment
Calling for experimentation and redirection of organizational funds to support open infrastructure
Reflecting and encouraging the acceleration of open practices in scholarship
Default open grant proposals benefit both individual scientists as well as the broader scientific community
How and why we should make scholarship worth watching
Unsolved challenges and future directions for open citations
Recently
Published: Aug 31, 2021
On the shapes of life
Published: Aug 31, 2021
Critiquing and reimagining our publishing workflows at the interface of print and digital media.
Published: Aug 17, 2021
A call for contributions. Submissions close on Monday, September 13, 2021.
Published: Aug 10, 2021
Libraries, publishers, and innovation for OA books: a European perspective
Read together: #AnnoConvo
Published: Jul 22, 2021
Authors' conversation annotating readers' annotations on their book about annotation: #AnnoConvo
Published: Jul 22, 2021
Public annotation induces the collective production of knowledge and ways of disseminating and searching for information and allows for effective communication to become an ongoing process.
Published: Jul 19, 2021
Local newsrooms play key roles in a democracy; yet they are shrinking and closing across the United States. How might we better publicly support them?
