Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
Start Date
3-6-2026 4:00 PM
End Date
3-6-2026 4:30 PM
Description
Scholars around the world, even from core research locations, express frustration at the processes of sharing and disseminating research. Scholars discuss the confusing or conflicting reviews they receive, and the astronomical fees to publish in Open Access (OA) journals, but when these global factors are combined with regional factors for scholars in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the view of the scholarly communication landscape can quickly go from challenging, to treacherous and at times a career stunting topography with a variety of obstacles and barriers. The terrain scholars cross to obtain, produce, and disseminate research outputs looks different based on geopolitical locations. Many disciplines are missing out on valuable contributions from scholars’ silenced in the prominent discourse. For this presentation we address two of the main methods of scholarly communication, conference presentations and publications. We discuss the organization of international conferences, including how speakers and presenters are chosen, how visa issues impact attendance, as well as the culture at conferences. We will cover a variety of publishing paradigms and how they factor into the experiences. We will discuss traditional subscription-based as well as OA models, and how they can be viewed differently based on the geopolitical positions of scholars. We will discuss how the traditional models favored certain scholars and how the move to OA has produced benefits but has moved the financial burden from paying to access to paying to author. The shift introduces new complexities and challenges for authors, publishers, and institutions. We will support the need for a novel critical lens that would enable a common approach to the matters of equity in scholarly communication from a variety of vantage points, especially from the perspective of marginalized scholars who have not often had an active voice on the health and justice of the scholarly publishing landscape.
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A Developing Critical Lens Based on Distinct Scholar Experiences in Scholarly Communication
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
Scholars around the world, even from core research locations, express frustration at the processes of sharing and disseminating research. Scholars discuss the confusing or conflicting reviews they receive, and the astronomical fees to publish in Open Access (OA) journals, but when these global factors are combined with regional factors for scholars in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the view of the scholarly communication landscape can quickly go from challenging, to treacherous and at times a career stunting topography with a variety of obstacles and barriers. The terrain scholars cross to obtain, produce, and disseminate research outputs looks different based on geopolitical locations. Many disciplines are missing out on valuable contributions from scholars’ silenced in the prominent discourse. For this presentation we address two of the main methods of scholarly communication, conference presentations and publications. We discuss the organization of international conferences, including how speakers and presenters are chosen, how visa issues impact attendance, as well as the culture at conferences. We will cover a variety of publishing paradigms and how they factor into the experiences. We will discuss traditional subscription-based as well as OA models, and how they can be viewed differently based on the geopolitical positions of scholars. We will discuss how the traditional models favored certain scholars and how the move to OA has produced benefits but has moved the financial burden from paying to access to paying to author. The shift introduces new complexities and challenges for authors, publishers, and institutions. We will support the need for a novel critical lens that would enable a common approach to the matters of equity in scholarly communication from a variety of vantage points, especially from the perspective of marginalized scholars who have not often had an active voice on the health and justice of the scholarly publishing landscape.