This document discusses reshaping scholarly communications to promote openness and equity. It argues that current research systems operate as "vicious cycles of extraction" that promote hierarchy, hypercompetition, and exclusion. However, research could function as a "virtuous circle of reciprocity" through community building, publishing to share knowledge, addressing societal benefits, and inclusive excellence. The document advocates for open and inclusive knowledge infrastructure to support the UN's Sustainable Development Goals of well-being, justice, and rights. It proposes building scholarship as a cooperative process and designing infrastructure to be generative rather than prescriptive.

1. How can we reshape Scholarly Communications?
Openness and Equity
Leslie Chan
Centre for Critical Development Studies
University of Toronto Scarborough
Canada
@lesliekwchan @ocsdnet
@knowledgegap

2. Why is Open Scholarship central to the
Sustainable Development Goals?

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6. Research as Vicious Cycles of Extraction
Publish or
Perish
Metrics &
Evaluation
Rankings
Prestige
Promotion of
Hierarchy,
Hypercompetition,
Exclusion
Production
of Anxiety
and
Suveillance

7. Research as a Virtuous Circle of Reciprocity
Community
Building &
Epistemic
Diversity
Publish
and
Cherish
Societal
Benefits
Inclusive
Excellence
Redistribution
Generation of
Well Being and
Epistemic Justice

8. Research as Vicious Cycles
of Extraction
Publish or
Perish
Metrics &
Evaluation
Rankings
Prestige
Promotion of
Hierarchy,
Hypercompetition,
Exclusion
Research as a Virtuous Circle
of Reciprocity
Community
Building &
Epistemic
Justice
Publish
and
Cherish
Societal
Benefits
Inclusive
Excellen
ce
Redistribut
ion
Infrastructures are not ideologically neutral. They are political choices.

10. Posada and Chen 2019, forthcoming. Based on Posada , Alejandro and Chen , George - Inequality in Knowledge
Production: The Integration of Academic Infrastructure by Big Publishers https://elpub.episciences.org/4618

11. “Whether your members are working towards
a promotion or are applying for research
funding, understanding the impact of their
research is an incredibly useful asset.
Elsevier has combined and improved upon its
CiteAlert and Article Usage Report tools with
the creation of My Research Dashboard. Any
author who has published at least one article
in a journal published by Elsevier can register
for a free and personalized dashboard. The
data feeding the dashboard comes from
Scopus, ScienceDirect, Mendeley, and Newsflo.
Elsevier acquired Newsflo, a media monitoring
service, in January 2015. Newsflo shows
authors where their research is being talked
about in the media.”
My Research Dashboard shows download
activity, shares, citations, demographic data
about who is reading your research, and how
and where your publications are being
discovered.
https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/societies/societies-update/issue-4/an-impactful-

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content/uploads/2017/07/THE_WorldUniversityRankings201617_gdpmap.jpg

14. https://www.elsevier.com/connect/discover-the-data-behind-the-times-higher-education-world-university-rankings

15. https://www.privateequitywire.co.uk/2019/03/01/273580/inflexion-completes-acquisition-times-higher-education-
tpg-capital

16. https://www.bbc.com/new
s/education-49728941

19. Giulia Forsythe, Associate Director, Centre for Pedagogical Innovation. Brock University, Canada
@giuliaforsythe

20. •The platformitization of knowledge infrastructure
by private corporations is antithetical to the
epistemic and intellectual diversity that is crucial
to the sustainability of our planet. It drives
needless growth and amplify inequality.

21. http://www.theguardian.com/glo
bal-development/ng-
interactive/2015/jan/19/sustaina
ble-development-goals-changing-
world-17-steps-interactive

22. Build resilient
infrastructure,
promote inclusive and
sustainable
industrialisation and
foster innovation
End poverty
in all its
forms
everywhere
Promote peaceful and
inclusive societies for
sustainable
development, provide
access to justice for all
and build effective,
accountable and
inclusive institutions at
all levels

23. Build resilient
infrastructure,
promote inclusive and
sustainable
industrialisation and
foster innovation
End poverty
in all its
forms
everywhere
Promote peaceful and
inclusive societies for
sustainable
development, provide
access to justice for all
and build effective,
accountable and
inclusive institutions at
all levels
Open Inclusive
Knowledge
Infrastructure
Poverty of
Imagination
Epistemic
Justice and
Rights to
Research

24. Why is Open Scholarship central to the
Sustainable Development Goals?
Well being of the planet and of the people
buen vivir
Degrowth
Ethics of Care, Solidarity and Cooperation
Rights to Research and Development as Freedom

25. Some building blocks
• Scholarship as a process, not products
• Openness as praxis, not a fixed set of conditions
• Social Infrastructure as the foundation of Knowledge
Infrastructure
• Infrastructures are not neutral
• Design Infrastructure to be generative, not prescriptive
• Need to pay attention to invisible barriers

26. Towards a “Pluriversal” framework
•“a world where many worlds fit”
•built on the concept of diversity
within a whole Earth system, a
multiplicity of worlds and peoples
coexisting within the Planet
•life’s ceaselessness, always
flowing, constantly changing
owing to interdependence of all
aspects of living systems