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# Re-thinking Academic Publishing: The Promise of Platform Cooperativism
- URL: https://werd.io/re-thinking-academic-publishing-the-promise-of-platform-cooperativism/
- Published: 2021-09-07T18:59:59.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-07T18:59:59.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"Or could we imagine a future where scholars are the ones at the helm of the scholarly publishing ecosystem? In this contribution, we propose to do just that: imagine a different — fairer, more economically sustainable, and inclusive — approach to open access. However, to do that, we need to think not only outside the scope of existing business and publishing models but also the existing organisational models."

\[[Link](https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/o7rdo4yf/release/1?readingCollection=58eb241e)\]