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SUSTAINABLE PATHWAYS
How to make infrastructures that last
Published: Sep 19, 2024
🗣️ Discuss: A new mission and model for academic libraries is needed and a more open and automated future holds much promise for libraries willing to embrace a socially-driven future in a vastly more accessible and open scholarly realm.
Published: Oct 10, 2023
The online experience wasn't always one of Big Tech and "internet trash." What aspects of contemporary digital platforms preserve creativity and community and which need reformed?
Published: Aug 22, 2023
Exit strategies ensure that infrastructure remains available even after the initial organization may dissolve. What would it mean for an organization to transfer their company to the community?
Published: Aug 22, 2023
Exploring Exit-to-Community strategies for a hypothetical worker-owned Cooperative Research Organization.
Published: Aug 15, 2023
🎧 From designing guidelines for tenure and promotion, to determining what's the best way to get your work cited, this podcast with University of Waterloo's Lennart Nacke discusses a lot of important scholcomm topics. (46 mins with transcript)
Published: Jul 06, 2023
In the wake of the Nelson memo, what infrastructures and policies should universities implement to make research open without selling out to large publishing corporations?
Published: Apr 05, 2023
How do you create effective non-traditional outputs for your research? This set of questions is crafted to aid scholars focus on the process of their knowledge production.
Published: Nov 16, 2021
Creating a collection at a small liberal arts college that betters the scholarly communication system internal and external to the university.
Published: Nov 16, 2021
Adapting and strategizing how best to support open scholarly communications: Penn Libraries plan to build community engagement.
Published: Aug 24, 2021
Transforming organizations to be more community-focused and -owned
Published: Aug 23, 2021
Integrating process into scholarly practices of reading, writing, and knowledge production
Published: Aug 20, 2021
Infrastructures are more than the tools we use, they are a part of the process and we trust them to function properly.
Published: Aug 16, 2021
Calling for experimentation and redirection of organizational funds to support open infrastructure
Published: Aug 16, 2021
Bringing funding back to the community by focusing on mission alignment
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?
Published: Jun 29, 2021
Libraries want to experiment and support innovative approaches to open access but at the same time they need initiatives to be sustainable.
Published: May 19, 2021
The dominant commercial models in scholarly publishing aren’t serving the academy or humanity well — extracting enormous profits from a mostly publicly-funded endeavor. But we have a window to stand up and support an alternative.
Published: Apr 22, 2021
Many open access publishing platforms are more like club memberships. What model would actually make publishing more accessible?
Published: Mar 26, 2021
Tobias Steiner describes his transition to a new job and country during Brexit and the pandemic, testing tools and platforms for horizontal collaborations, and the lessons he's learned about maintaining platforms for open scholarship.
Published: Sep 29, 2020
Redefining their role as liberating rather than stifling, fostering new kinds of work for innovators in the field, launching new initiatives, and “manifesting” the world as it could be, scholarly communications could be more crucial than ever.
Published: Sep 09, 2020
This paper argues that the time has come for universities and other knowledge institutions to assume a larger role in mitigating the risks that arise from ongoing consolidation in research infrastructure. DOI: 10.3233/ISU-200084
Published: Jul 31, 2020
An introduction to the importance of sustainability certification in fostering public awareness and collaboration for planetary and social benefit.
Published: Jul 23, 2020
Published: Apr 17, 2020
An annotated reading list
Published: Apr 17, 2020
This powerful website, consistently one of the world’s most popular sites, shapes knowledge creation as well as reflects the state of what we know. How great that we can control it!
Published: Mar 15, 2020
DOCS is a necessary addition to the current landscape because much of the current activity either sits within or fails to challenge neoliberal values that apply across the entire ecology of teaching and learning, research and publishing.
