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Lost in translation? Revisiting notions of community- and scholar-led publishing in international contexts

This post explores how terms such as community-led and scholar-led are being applied in different contexts to describe particular sets of approaches to scholarly publishing.

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ScholarLed Welcomes New Members: African Minds and mediastudies.press

ScholarLed are delighted to announce that two additional scholar-led presses will be joining our consortium: African Minds and mediastudies.press.

ScholarLed open for membership applications

ScholarLed open for membership applications

We are delighted and proud to announce that ScholarLed is now registered as a not-for-profit foundation in the Netherlands. We are run by a board drawn from the participating presses (see our bylaws here) and welcome like-minded scholar-led presses to join our consortium.

Recruiting a COPIM Research Associate

Recruiting a COPIM Research Associate

The Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project is looking to recruit a Research Associate to work on two of the project’s key work packages

DARIAHOpen OA Week Special Edition: Interview Questions for the ScholarLed Team

DARIAHOpen OA Week Special Edition: Interview Questions for the ScholarLed Team

DARIAHOpen asked to interview us about the formation, ethos and ambitions of ScholarLed. We were delighted to accept!

The Bonds that Fail to Tie Us Together: The Search for Sustainable Open Infrastructure in the UK and Beyond

The Bonds that Fail to Tie Us Together: The Search for Sustainable Open Infrastructure in the UK and Beyond

How can the open community put in place a sustainable infrastructure that helps to support Open Access to scholarship and retain some ownership of the research ecosystem?

Safekeeping Diversity in Scholarly Communication: How ‘Transformative’ Are Recent Agreements?

Safekeeping Diversity in Scholarly Communication: How ‘Transformative’ Are Recent Agreements?

The humanities should refrain from implementing a bad solution to a problem that they can avoid. Rather than spending time, energy and budget on transformative agreements with commercial publishers, they should set an example by making sure that alternatives flourish.

Open *By* Whom? On the Meaning of ‘Scholar-Led’

Open By Whom? On the Meaning of ‘Scholar-Led’

Scholar-led forms of open access can help influence the future of all forms of publishing, through its focus on non-commercial, experimental and collaborative practices. It represents new practices that other publishers could adopt.

Building a Course Library with OER

Building a Course Library with OER

The advent of open access to scholarly work online offers all teachers a great opportunity to re-think course content: the time has come to start thinking about course libraries instead of course textbooks.

Laying the Pavement Where People Actually Walk: Thoughts on Our Chances of Bringing Scholarship Back to the Heart of Scholarly Communication

Laying the Pavement Where People Actually Walk: Thoughts on Our Chances of Bringing Scholarship Back to the Heart of Scholarly Communication

What are our options to reduce the gap between established practices of scholarly communication and actual, evolving research practices?

Trust and Transparency: Critical Ingredients for Open Access

Trust and Transparency: Critical Ingredients for Open Access

These steps are the beginnings of a movement towards having more trusting and transparent conversations about open systems. If not, we face the risk that open systems will be co-opted by or become rife with the inequities we are aiming to eradicate from the current system.

Co-creating Open Infrastructure to Support Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Equity

Co-creating Open Infrastructure to Support Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Equity

Infrastructure, we contend, is never neutral but involves contest over power. Infrastructure not only determines how we access and who can access information, but whose voices count as “legitimate” scholarship.

Ownership, Control, Access & Possession in Open Access Humanities Publishing

Ownership, Control, Access & Possession in Open Access Humanities Publishing

Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences are better positioned than ever to build adaptive platforms that help to collect, protect and connect cultural knowledge in responsible, ethical and sustainable ways.

Ten Key Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure Today and Tomorrow

Ten Key Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure Today and Tomorrow

The scholarly communication community needs an open, sustainable infrastructure that is community-owned — one that speaks to our open and academic values.

ScholarLed to Pilot International Project for a Community-led Ecosystem for Open Access Book Publishing

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ScholarLed to Pilot International Project for a Community-led Ecosystem for Open Access Book Publishing

ScholarLed to play a key role in the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, supported by a £2.2 million grant from the Research England Development (RED) fund.

The Enclosure of Scholarly Infrastructures, Open Access Books & the Necessity of Community

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The Enclosure of Scholarly Infrastructures, Open Access Books & the Necessity of Community

It has to be asked: is it, in fact, a public and universal community “good” that all OA books be aggregated in one, central repository?