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Date: 2025-11-13 09:10:50+00:00
From: Samuel A. Moore <sam214@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: New monograph and talks
Dear friends,
My book Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the
Commons<https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market> was
recently published by the University of Michigan Press. The book critically
explores the open access movement through an assessment of commercial models,
funder policies and radical scholar-led experiments. It's (of course) open
access and I've pasted the blurb below.
I'm also giving a couple of online talks in the next month that readers might be
interested in:
Open Divide<https://unilu.webex.com/webappng/sites/unilu/meeting/register/fb0ccb
379b104faab7240b67a696bd14?ticket=4832534b00000007f61bbad121d38ffca9004d804b5ef8
d645f261f9a3c10f075de7ef8db9a5f794×tamp=1763024529088&RGID=rf646bc66d043c4c
0a873c066c4741910&isAutoPopRegisterForm=false> Wednesday, November 26, 2025 4:00
PM - 5:00 PM GMT
Internet Archive<https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-publishing-beyond-the-
market-with-samuel-moore/>: December 4 @ 6pm - 7pm GMT
All the best,
Sam
Dr. Samuel A. Moore
Principal Investigator: Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities
and Social Sciences (MORPHSS)
Scholarly Communication Specialist, Open Research team, Cambridge University
Libraries and Archives
Affiliated Lecturer, Cambridge Digital Humanities
College Research Associate, King's College
sam214@cam.ac.uk<mailto:sam214@cam.ac.uk>
https://www.samuelmoore.org/
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Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus
less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the
publications and infrastructures for scholarly communication. By deploying
theoretical literature on science and technology studies, care ethics, and the
commons, the book critically interrogates open access and reimagines a more
ethical future for researcher-led publishing. A case study of Plan S-the
multifunder European policy for open access publishing-explores its tendency to
rehearse all the failures of commercialisation. Through critical engagement with
the open access landscape, the book reveals the shortcomings of market-centric
and policy-based approaches to open access book and journal publishing,
particularly their tendency to reinforce conservatism, commercialism, and
private control of publishing.
Going forward, Publishing Beyond the Market explores the importance of
collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access
publishing. It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing
landscape through a series of presses that are each managed by working academics
could offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access and
subscription publishing. In weaving themselves together in order to "scale
small" these publishing initiatives would act as a counter-hegemonic project
based on mutual reliance and care. By illustrating how these projects build
toward a commons-based publishing future, and how they may complement other
approaches to publishing within university presses and libraries, the book
culminates in an argument for the infrastructures, policies, and forms of
governance needed to nurture such a collective vision.
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