Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
Description
This seminar offers an opportunity to critically reflect on the IS publishing landscape and explore strategies that ensure it serves the common good while upholding principles of equity, transparency, and accessibility. Following a brief overview of the state of affairs of the academic publishing ecosystem, the seminar will shed light on a market failure that allows commercial publishers to generate exorbitant profits at the expense of the scientific enterprise and society at large. The discussion will explore how emerging technologies can empower the scientific community to grapple with this predicament and foster an institutional logic that favors scholarship and world benefit over the economic interests of publishers. Specifically, the seminar will examine pathways to provide authors with greater ownership and control over their scholarly products through community-owned and collaboratively managed publishing modalities.