My FLC-related project is the creation of an overlay journal, History of Media Studies. The open-access journal,slated to launch its first issue in summer 2018, is published by the Open Library of Humanities—the Mellon-backed open-access publisher with an innovative library-subsidy funding model. The journal will launch as OLH’s first overlay journal, taking advantage of the brand-new overlay capabilities included in …

For my Open Scholarship project, I plan to launch a peer-reviewed overlay journal, History of Media Studies. I have been talking about the idea with the UK-based Open Library of Humanities for over a year, as the nonprofit publishing platform worked to refine its open-source Janeway journal-hosting software to accommodate overlay titles. The software is nearly ready, and I have …

I am posting a link here to the short article I posted to LSE Impact in August, “Scholarly Communications Shouldn’t Just be Open, but Non-Profit Too” The article seeks to highlight the dangers that profit incentives—especially when venture capital is involved—pose for the open knowledge movement.

Note: This is just the first part of a longer post that I may work into a short article. The word “open” coats any noun that it modifies with a sheen of virtue. This is probably a good thing, most of the time, but all that conferred luster might have some bad consequences. Since “open” can be paired with almost …