Reassembling Scholarly Communications

Contents
Grammatical and Terminological Notes
Acknowledgments
	Note
Abbreviations and Glossary
Introduction
	Chapters and Structure
	Conclusions and Perspectives
	Notes
I. Colonial Influences
	1. Epistemic Alienation in African Scholarly Communications: Open Access as a Pharmakon
		The Biased Beginnings of Open Access in Africa
		Early Mismatching in the African Context
		Is Open Access a Poison for Africa?
		Coloniality of Knowledge in Open Access
		Epistemic Alienation
		Rethinking OA: A Decolonized Approach to Scholarly Communication
		Cognitive Decolonization as a Starting Point
		The Redesign of Open Access as a Tool of Cognitive Justice
		Notes
	2. Scholarly Communications and Social Justice
		Rooted in Colonial Privilege
		Replicating Representation: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
		Inequalities in Production
		Conclusion
		Notes
	3. Social Justice and Inclusivity: Drivers for the Dissemination of African Scholarship
		Ubuntu and Social Justice
		Social Justice and Inclusivity through Library Publishing
		Decolonization of the Colonized Publishing Landscape
		Unhindered Access versus Unhindered Participation
		Library Publishing in South Africa
		African Continental Platform
		Conclusion
		Notes
	4. Can Open Scholarly Practices Redress Epistemic Injustice?
		Structural and Epistemic Injustice in Scholarly Communication
		Can Open Scholarly Practices Redress Epistemic Injustice?
		Openness in Pursuit of Epistemic Justice
		Notes
II. Epistemologies
	5. When the Law Advances Access to Learning: Locke and the Origins of Modern Copyright
		Locke’s Lobbying
		Piracy’s Interlude
		Statute of Anne 1710
		Notes
	6. How Does a Format Make a Public?
		AIME: Making a Format for Transdisciplinary Publics
		How Horizons of Practice Shape Publics
		Notes
	7. Peer Review: Readers in the Making of Scholarly Knowledge
		Peer Review as Reading
		Citing Articles
		Commenting Texts
		Sharing Papers
		Examining Documents
		Conclusion
		Notes
	8. The Making of Empirical Knowledge: Recipes, Craft, and Scholarly Communication
		The Early Modern How-to Text as a Platform for Knowledge-Making and Dissemination: BnF Ms. Fr. 640
		The Making and Knowing Project as a Platform for Knowledge Creation and Exchange
		The Digital Critical Edition of BnF Ms. Fr. 640
		The Making and Knowing Project: Process and Pedagogy
		Dissemination of the Making and Knowing Project through a Teaching Platform
		Results
		Notes
III. Publics and Politics
	9. The Royal Society and the Noncommercial Circulation of Knowledge
		Introduction
		Money
		1. A Membership Perk
		2. Institutional Gifts and Exchanges
		3. Offprints
		4. Copying, Reprinting, and Reuse
		Conclusion
		Notes
	10. The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge
		Public Libraries and Expanding Access
		Class, Colonialism, and Access
		Open Access and Knowledge Politics
		Conclusion
		Notes
	11. Libraries and Their Publics in the United States
		Library Funding Is Cut while Demands for Access Increase
		Open Access and Open Educational Resources Increase Access
		Open Access and Open Educational Resources Benefit Libraries and Their Publics
		Notes
	12. Open Access, “Publicity,” and Democratic Knowledge
		Notes
IV. Archives and Preservation
	13. Libraries, Museums, and Archives as Speculative Knowledge Infrastructure
		A Question and Two Assertions
		Five Spectra for Twenty-First-Century Knowledge Design
		Enlightenment versus Afrofuturist Structurings
		Historico-Evidentiary versus Speculative Orientation
		Assessment versus the Incommensurate
		Transparency versus Surveillance
		Local versus Global Granularities
		Notes
	14. Preserving the Past for the Future: Whose Past? Everyone’s Future
		Preservation at the Margins
		Scholarship as Open, Inclusive Conversation
		Empowering and Involving Marginalized Communities
		Changing Values
		Notes
	15. Is There a Text in These Data? The Digital Humanities and Preserving the Evidence
		How Digital Humanities Changes Humanities Evidence and Its Stewardship
		How Humanities Publication Practices Enforce Text Hegemony
		Conclusion
		Notes
	16. Accessing the Past, or Should Archives Provide Open Access?
		Notes
V. Infrastructures and Platforms
	17. Infrastructural Experiments and the Politics of Open Access
		1. Who Has Access?
		2. What Counts?
		3. What Matters?
		4. How Are Relations Reconfigured?
		Conclusion
		Notes
	18. The Platformization of Open
		Notes
	19. Reading Scholarship Digitally
		Scholarship, Labor Power, and Proliferation
		Distant Reading Methodologies
		Machine Learning and Research Literature Classification
		Tempered Possibilities
		Notes
	20. Toward Linked Open Data for Latin America
		Technology for Visibility, Discoverability, and Internationalization
		Leveraging Semantic Technologies to Achieve a Global Research Dialogue
		Notes
	21. The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of SciELO
		Building a Common Publishing Model
		Documenting the Evolution of the SciELO Program and Network
		SciELO, Open Access, and Technology
		The Collective Building of the Present and Future of SciELO
		Notes
VI. Global Communities
	22. Not Self-Indulgence, but Self-Preservation: Open Access and the Ethics of Care
		Notes
	23. Toward a Global Open-Access Scholarly Communications System: A Developing Region Perspective
		Open Access in Latin America: Scholar-Led and Publicly Funded
		Open-Access Journals from Latin America: Regional Directory, Publishing Platforms, and Indexing Services
		Repositories in Latin America: Institutional, National, Regional, and Subject Repositories
		Declarations on Open Access in Latin America
		Evaluation Systems in Developing Regions
		Conclusion
		Notes
	24. Learned Societies, Humanities Publishing, and Scholarly Communication in the UK
		Notes
	25. Not All Networks: Toward Open, Sustainable Research Communities
		Notes
	Conclusion
		Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index