Suggested Readings

To help attendees prepare for the forum, CP2OA facilitators have suggested the following readings to provide overviews of and background information about the OA approaches and strategies that will be discussed.

Catherine Anderson | Collectives and crowd-sourcing

• Knowledge Unlatched, Anti-Double Dipping Alliance for transparency in Open Access book publishing formed
• OA2020-DE and Knowledge Unlatched, Recommendations on Quality Standards for the Open Access Provision of Books (PDF)
• OA2020-DE and Knowledge Unlatched, OA2020-DE and Knowledge Unlatched are Committed to the Quality of Open Access Books

Kamran Naim | Collectives & crowd-sourcing

• John Wilinsky, Subscribing to Open Access for Research and Scholarship

Eric Bakovic | Faculty engagement

• Theodore C. Bergstrom, A Lysistratan Scheme for Punishing Overpriced Economics Journals
• Eric Bakovic, Lingua is dead. Long live Glossa!
• University of California Office of Scholarly Communication, UC linguistics faculty pledge support for Glossa, call for cancellation of Lingua

David Lewis | Universal strategies; infrastructure investment

• David W. Lewis, The 2.5% Commitment
• Cameron Neylon, Against the 2.5% Commitment
• Cameron Neylon, Sustaining Scholarly Infrastructures through Collective Action: The Lessons that Olson can Teach us
• David W. Lewis, The Inevitability of Open Access

Jill Grogg & Celeste Feather | Consortial investments

• John Wenzler, Scholarly Communication and the Dilemma of Collective Action: Why Academic Journals Cost Too Much
• Jonathan Harwell, Being Earnest with Collections: Investing in Open Access at a Small Academic Library

Matt Spitzer | Preprints and repositories

• Rusty Speidel and Matt Spitzer, Preprints: The What, The Why, The How
• Matt Spitzer, Community-Driven Science: An Interview With EarthArXiv Founders Chris Jackson, Tom Narock and Bruce Caron

Ellen Finnie | Multiple strategies

• Ellen Finnie, What organic food shopping can tell us about transforming the scholarly communications system
• Ellen Finnie, Beware the Trojan Horse: Elsevier’s repository pilot and our vision for IRs & Open Access
• Ellen Finnie, Offsetting as a path to full Open Access: MIT and the Royal Society of Chemistry sign first North American ‘read and publish’ agreement

Danny Kingsley | Multiple strategies

• John Willinsky and Matthew Rusk, If Research Libraries and Funders Finance Open Access: Moving Beyond Subscriptions and APCs
• University of Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communication, Data gathering project
• Dr Danny Kingsley & Katie Hughes, ‘No free labor’ – we agree

Eileen A. Joy | OA books and scholar-led OA

• Eileen A. Joy, Here Be Monsters: A Punctum Publishing Primer
• Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, A Case Study in Scholar-led Open Access Publishing and a Mini-Manifesto for the Minor Humanities
• Eileen A. Joy, Not Self-Indulgence, but Self-Preservation: Open Access and the Ethics of Care, in Old Traditions and New Technologies: The Pasts, Presents and Futures of Open Scholarly Communications, eds. Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray (MIT Press, forthcoming 2019)