The Labor of Open
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The Labor of Open: a zine made at the 2019#TriangleSCI
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A brick wall with an opening leading to an open sky
The World We Envision
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Keywords: “SCHOLAR-LED, ANTI RACIST, ANTI-COLONIAL, INDEPENDENT, AUTONOMOUS, FEMINIST, EQUITY-BASED, KNOWLEDGE LANDSCAPE”
Body: “We envision: A world of flourishing independent and scholar-led knowledge projects, A publishing landscape that emerges from antiracist, feminist, and queer practices, Equitable open access with an infrastructure built by and for knowledge-makers that challenges colonial legacies of knowledge as property, Knowledge production that refuses to be disciplined or disciplinary, Approaches that focus on process over product and relationships over algorithms.
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Across the entire page at the bottom is the ground with roots, on the left-hand side of the page is a network trees and other greenery that gives way to mushrooms interspersed with key words (see transcription), on the right-hand side of the page is a sky with clouds with the body text interspersed (see transcription); lower case and upper case text is interspersed
Solidarity
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Body: If our collective action could overthrow profit-seeking publishers and put their systems in the hands of non-profit actors, would the greater world be much different? We suspect not. If instead, we see the problems of privatized knowledge production as part of broader systems, and do our work in SOLIDARITY with global movements against extractive economies, WE MIGHT MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT. This puts our action is solidarity with movements that seek JUSTICE, EQUITY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND AUTONOMY. THE WORK OF OPEN MUST INCLUDE organizing OURSELVES and OUR POWER, identifying COMMON STRUGGLES against the system and CULTIVATING CRITICAL HOPE, CONNECTING to broader movements and pooling our SOCIAL CAPITAL, RECLAIMING OUR SPACES for AUTONOMY
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Four arms interlocked in the center of the page with the body text (see transcription) divided into the four quadrants of the page; lower case and upper case text is interspersed
The Work
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Slogans (one per placard): “challenge hegemony, More of Us, COOPERATIVE CAPITAL; PROCESS OVER PRODUCT, FEWER BOSSES!, CARE OVER PROFIT, CENTER RELATIONSHIPS; CONNECTIVE GOALS”
Background: “COPYEDITING, LAYING OUT, READING, WRITING, RESEARCHING, FORMATTING, CORRECTING CITATIONS, REGISTERING DOI, MANAGING DEADLINES, CHECKING NAME SPELLING, RECRUITING CONTRIBUTORS, ACQUIRING FUNDING; PROMOTION; PROOFREADING, PEER REVIEW, CODING, DESIGN, WRITING CALLS FOR PAPERS; UPLOADING VERSIONS, DOWNLOADING VERSIONS, CONVERTING DOCUMENT VERSIONS, ACCOUNTING, DEALING WITH ERRATA, SUMMARIZING REVIEWER FEEDBACK, EMAILING, NETWORKING, NAVIGATING SUBMISSION PLATFORMS; CONFORMING TO COPYRIGHT; MEETING WITH THE EDITORIAL BOARD; FINANCING, PRINTING, MAKING THE WORK VISIBLE IN DISCOVERY PLATFORMS; CIRCULATING, COLLATING REVIEWERS’ COMMENTS; WEBSITE MAINTENANCE, CORRESPONDING WITH EDITORS, CORRESPONDING WITH AUTHORS, SOLICITING MATERIALS, MENTORSHIP, COMMUNITY-BUILDING, CONSENSUS-BUILDING; MEETINGS, LAYOUT DESIGN , QUALITY CONTROL, ADDRESSING PLAGIARISM, MANAGING CONTRACTS”
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Seven rectangles in the center page that evoke poster placards with slogans in different handwritten scripts (see transcription); background of repeating text (see transcription); all text is uppercase
The “We”
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Portrait text: “Ela, Leslie, Danielle, Lisa, Emily, Jojo”
Body: “WHO ARE WE: We are a group committed to the praxis of open scholarly communications. We are librarians, scholars, journal editors, and students wanting to foster alternatives to the publishing status quo. INSPIRED BY: Radical Open Access Collective
AmeliCa.org, Mukurtu, Tactical Tech Collective, OpenCon, Big Door Brigade, Indigenous New Media at UBC, Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network.”
Attributions/acknowledgements: “CCBY, Mellon, Scholarly Communications Institute.”
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At the top of the page there are small portraits of the six group members with their names (see transcription), the remainder of the page is a brick wall with holes throughout that expose parts of the sky and include the body text (see transcription); at the bottom of the brick wall are the acknowledgement (see transcription), one per brick, accompanied by their logos; lower case and upper case text is interspersed