Achieving global open access the need for scientific, epistemic and participatory openness / Stephen Pinfield.
| Author/creator | Pinfield, Stephen |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Need for scientific, epistemic and participatory openness |
| Series | Routledge critical studies on open access |
| Partial contents | Critique of global open access -- Scientific openness as a starting point -- Epistemic openness and constructionism -- Epistemic openness and knowledge-based oppression -- Epistemic openness and the "ecologies of knowledges" -- Epistemic openness and critical realism -- Participatory openness and enabling inclusion -- The need for scientific, epistemic, and participatory openness. |
| Abstract | "Achieving Global Open Access explores some of the key conditions that are necessary to deliver global Open Access (OA) that is effective and equitable. Often assumed to be a self-evident good, OA has been subject to growing criticism for perpetuating global inequities and epistemic injustices. It has been seen as imposing exploitative business and publishing models and as exacerbating exclusionary research evaluation cultures and practices. Pinfield engages with these issues, recognising that the global OA debate is now not just about publishing business models and academic reward structures, but also about what constitutes valid and valuable knowledge, how we know, and who gets to say. The book argues that, for OA to deliver its potential, it first needs to be associated with 'epistemic openness', a wider and more inclusive understanding of what constitutes valid and valuable knowledge. It also needs to be accompanied by 'participatory openness', enabling contributions to knowledge from more diverse communities. Interacting with relevant theory and current practice, the book discusses the challenges in implementing these different forms of openness, the relationships between them, and their limits. Achieving Global Open Access is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of Library and Information Science, Open Access and Publishing. It will also be valuable and interesting to library and publishing professionals around the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Terms of use | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Pinfield, Stephen. Achieving global open access Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781032625751 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024015669 |
| ISBN | 9781032679259 (ebk) |
| ISBN | (hbk) |
| ISBN | (pbk) |