[IP-OA_Forum] Samuel Moore: “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons” - siebter Vortrag der Open Divide Serie

[Ulrich Herb <u.herb@sulb.uni-saarland.de>]

Liebe Kolleg*innen,

Wir (Joachim Schöpfel, Niels-Oliver Walkowski und ich) freuen uns sehr, den siebten Beitrag der Vortragsreihe Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access 2025/2026 bekanntzugeben. Er findet statt am 26. November 2025 um 17:00 Uhr (CET).

Wir freuen uns auf den Vortrag:

🎤  “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons” von Samuel Moore

👉 Abstract

This talk will cover material from Dr Moore’s new book Publishing Beyond the Market (University of Michigan Press,https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market ). In the book, Dr Moore 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 re-imagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing. A case study of Plan S—the multi-funder European policy for OA 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. The talk will alsoexplore the importance of collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access publishing, suggesting 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.

👉 Über Samuel Moore

Dr. Samuel A. Moore is the Scholarly Communication Specialist at Cambridge University Library and Principal Investigator of Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (funded by Wellcome Trust, AHRC and the Research England Development Fund). He is also an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge Digital Humanities and a College Research Associate at King’s College Cambridge.

Dr. Moore’s research sits within the digital humanities and focuses on topics relating to academic publishing, research practices in the humanities and social sciences, and critical issues relating to research communication. He has a Ph.D in Digital Humanities from King’s College London and is also one of the organisers of the Radical Open Access Collective, http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/.

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👉 Bitte beachten Sie auch die Übersicht aller Beiträge des Serie:

https://opendivide.hypotheses.org/open-divide-2025-2026-speakers-and-topics

Wir freuen uns sehr auf den Beitrag von Samuel und darauf, Teilnehmende aus der ganzen Welt begrüßen zu dürfen!

Mit besten Grüßen,

Dr. Ulrich Herb

Publikations- und Forschungsunterstützung / Leiter
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