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<font face="Avenir Book" size="5" color="#666666"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Radical Open Access II – The Ethics of Care</span></font></div>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Two days of critical discussion about creating a more diverse and equitable future for open access</span></font></div>
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</b></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="3" color="#FF6600"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>June 26-27 2018 </b></span></font></div>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Co-curators:</b></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Culture
Machine, Mattering Press, Memory of the World/Public Library, meson press, Open Humanities Press, punctum books, POP</span></font></div>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Speakers</b></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">: </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Denisse
Albornoz, Janneke Adema, Laurie Allen, Angel Octavio Alvarez Solís, Bodó Balázs, Kirsten Bell, George Chen, Jill Claassen, Joe Deville, Maddalena Fragnito, Valeria Graziano, Eileen Joy, Chris Kelty, Christopher Long, Kaja Marczewska, Frances McDonald, Gabriela
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Radical Open Access II is about developing an ethics of care. Care with regard to:</span></font></div>
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<li><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">our means of creating, publishing and communicating research;</span></font></li><li><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">our working conditions;</span></font></li><li><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">our relations with others.</span></font></li></ul>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Radical Open Access II aims to move the debate over open access on from two issues in particular:</span></font></div>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">THE QUESTION OF ACCESS. At first sight it may seem rather odd for a conference on open access to want to move on from this question. But as Sci-Hub, aaaarg,
libgen et al. show, the debate over access has largely been won by shadow-libraries, who are providing quick and easy access to vast amounts of published research. Too much of the debate over ‘legitimate’ forms of open access now seems to be about how to use
the provision of access to research as a means of exercising forms of governmental and commercial control (via audits, metrics, discourses of transparency and so on).</span></font></div>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">THE OA MOVEMENT’S RELUCTANCE TO ENGAGE RIGOROUSLY WITH THE KIND OF CONCERNS THAT ARE BEING DISCUSSED ELSEWHERE IN SOCIETY. This includes climate change, the
environment, and the damage that humans are doing to the planet (i.e. the Anthropocene). But it also takes in debates over different forms:</span></font></div>
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<li><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">of organising labour (e.g. platform cooperativism);</span></font></li><li><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">of working – such as those associated with ideas of post-work, the sharing and gig economies, and Universal Basic Income;</span></font></li><li><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">of being together – see the rise of interest in the Commons, and in experiments with horizontalist, leaderless ways of self-organizing such as those associated
with the Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and the Dakota Standing Rock Sioux protests.</span></font></li></ul>
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<font face="Avenir Black" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><b>Background</b></span></font></div>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In 2015 the</span> </span></font><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fradicalopenaccess.disruptivemedia.org.uk%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cademaj%40UNI.COVENTRY.AC.UK%7Cb2aa3d3a4faa40649a5108d5a3895e69%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C1%7C0%7C636594732757944153&sdata=hQ6VmdxUI%2FuvnqASvP89WMEcs69JlvG1UCaN7sKoWdk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk802324" previewremoved="true"><span id="LPlnk802324"><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;">inaugural</span></font></span></a><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">international
Radical Open Access Conference addressed an urgent question: how should we set about reclaiming </span></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">open access</span></i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> from
its corporate take-over, evident not least in the rise of A/BPC models based on the charging of exorbitant, unaffordable and unsustainable publishing fees from scholars and their institutions? The conference saw participants calling for the creation of new
forms of communality, designed to support the building of commons-based open access publishing infrastructures, and promote a more diverse, not-for-profit eco-system of scholarly communication. With these calls in mind, the</span> </span></font><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fradicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cademaj%40UNI.COVENTRY.AC.UK%7Cb2aa3d3a4faa40649a5108d5a3895e69%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C1%7C0%7C636594732757944153&sdata=LQbYMHfzv0%2B%2BYTHojWJB8iCf8rPMHuWwLwGiKO905K4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk520874" previewremoved="true"><span id="LPlnk520874"><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;">Radical
Open Access Collective</span></font></span></a><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(ROAC) was formed immediately following the 2015 conference as a horizontal alliance between like-minded
groups dedicated to the sharing of skills, tools and expertise. Since then it has grown to </span></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a community of over 40 scholar-led,
not-for-profit presses, journals and other projects. T</span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">he members of this alliance are all invested in reimaging publishing. And what’s more, are
committed to doing so in a context where debates over access—which in many respects have been resolved by the emergence of shadow libraries such as Sci-Hub—are increasingly giving way to concerns over the commercial hegemony of academic publishing. So much
so that the issue addressed by the 2015 conference—how can open access be taken back from its corporate take-over? —now seems more urgent than ever.</span></font></div>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In June 2018, Coventry </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">University’s </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">postdigital
arts and humanities research centre,</span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The
Post Office, will convene a second </span></font><font face="Avenir Black" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Radical Open Access</span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> conference,
examining the ways in which open access is being rendered further complicit with neoliberalism’s audit culture of evaluation, measurement, impact and accountability. Witness the way open access has become a top-down requirement - quite literally a ‘mandate’
– rather than a bottom-up scholar-led movement for change. Taking as its theme </span></font><font face="Avenir Black" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Ethics of Care</span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">,
the concern of this second conference will be on moving away from those market-driven incentives that are frequently used to justify open access, to focus instead on the values that underpin many of the radical open access community’s experiments in open publishing
and scholarly communication. In particular, it will follow the lead of Mattering Press, a founding member of the ROAC, in exploring how an </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ethics</span></i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">of </span></i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">care</span></i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> can
help to counter the </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">calculative logic</span></i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> that
otherwise permeates academic publishing</span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></font></div>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What would a commitment to more ethical forms of publishing look like? Would such an ethics of care </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">highlight
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<li><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Making publishing more diverse and equitable - geographically, but also with respect to issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality?</span></font></li><li><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">N</span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">urturing </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">new
and historically under-represented cultures of knowledge - </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">those associated with early career, precariously employed and para-academics, or located </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">outside</span></i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> the
global North and West?</span></font></li><li><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ensuring everyone is able to have a voice – not least </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">those
writing on niche or avant-garde topics or who are conducting hybrid, multimodal, post-literary forms of research, and who are currently underserved by our profit-focused commercial publishing system?</span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li></ul>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Indeed, for many members of the ROAC, a commitment to ethics entails </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">understanding
publishing very much as a complex, multi-agential, </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">relational </span></i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">practice</span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">,
and thus recognising that we have a responsibility to all those involved in the publishing process</span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Caring for the relationships
involved throughout this process is essential, from </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">rewarding or otherwise acknowledging people fairly for their labour, wherever
possible, to </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">redirecting our volunteer efforts away from commercial profit-driven entities in favour of supporting more progressive
not-for-profit forms of publishing. But it also includes taking care of the nonhuman: not just </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="#333333"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the published object itself, but </span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">all
those animals, plants and minerals that help to make up the scholarly communication eco-system.</span></font></div>
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<font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;">Radical Open Access II is community-driven, and is being co-organised and co-curated by various members of the ROAC in a collaborative manner. It includes panels on topics as diverse
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and Cooperation;</i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book Oblique" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i> Humane Metrics/Metrics Noir; </i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book Oblique" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i>Guerrilla
Open Access</i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book Oblique" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i>; The Poethics of Scholarship; </i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;">and</span></font><font face="Avenir Book Oblique" size="2"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i> </i></span></font><font face="Avenir Book Oblique" size="2" color="black"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><i>Care
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<p style="line-height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">The Guardian University Guide 2018</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">The Guardian and the Complete University Guides 2018</span></p>
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