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