[GOAL] Platform cooperativism: alternative to explore for scholarly social sharing?

[Gary Hall]

Just as a brief follow-up to Heather's post.

The relation between platform cooperativism and open access - as viewed 
in the context of a number of recent collaborative developments in open 
access such as the Radical Librarians Collective 
(https://rlc.radicallibrarianship.org), the Radical Open Access 
Collective (http://radicalopenaccess.disruptivemedia.org.uk), and the 
Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study that is ‘bringing together 
libraries, journals, societies, presses, funders’ and others to ‘explore 
the feasibility of a cooperative alternative in scholarly publishing’ 
(http://oa-cooperative.org) - was the subject of a talk I gave at the 
'Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?' symposium last December. You 
can find a video recording of it here, along with the presentations by 
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, David Parry and Pascal Aventurier.

https://archive.org/details/Boycottingacademiaedu

Best, Gary

-- 
Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Website http://www.garyhall.info

New book: Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2016)
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On 25/05/2016 13:12, Heather Morrison wrote:
> For anyone looking for alternatives to the SSRN Elsevier sell-out 
> scenario:
>
> The idea of platform cooperativism looks like it might be worth 
> exploring as an alternative for social scholarly sharing. The idea is 
> that contributors are members / partners who have equity.
>
> Article here:
> http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-platform-coops-can-beat-death-stars-like-uber-to-create-a-real-sharing-economy
>
> I am not an expert, just found this interesting and relevant.
>
> best,
>
> Heather Morrison
>
>
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