Montoya, A., et al. (2014), FAQs About Open Access – The Political Economy of Publishing in Anthropology and Beyond.
This publication is prior to the conference/workshop FAQs About Open Access – The Political Economy of Publishing in Anthropology and Beyond , held at Medialab-Prado (Madrid) on the 16th and 17th of October 2014. We, as conference conveners and members of the Research Group on Anthropology with a Public Orientation (GIAOP), are interested in the current debates about open access and it is out of that shared interest that this conference emerges. It has been more than a decade since the first declarations for open and free access to publicly-funded scientific knowledge were issued (the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002 and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access one year after). Even though the debate has proliferated with strength in the Anglo-American academia in the last few years, we think that the way in which it has done so is extremely narrow, limited to putting forth proposals for how to make academic publications available online —and generally not questioning the business models and the very academic practices that have led to “capture/enclose” knowledge in the first place. Therefore, with this conference, we seek to expand the discussion on open access, asking what effective openness would entail. Precisely because we claim the need for making research results within the social sciences and humanities available to broader audiences, we consider it crucial to promote reflection on how knowledge is generated, disseminated, evaluated and validated —practices that in turn sustain the current political economy of knowledge.
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