punctum is an #OpenAccess queer-led press dedicated to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with @UCSBLibrary.
Oct 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
HERE WE GO AGAIN. After the recent acquisition of Knowledge Unlatched and Hindawi by Wiley (and remember bepress anyone?!), it is now time for @ubiquitypress to be gobbled by another big for-profit player, De Gruyter for an "undisclosed sum." thebookseller.com/news/de-gruyte… 1/
It is becoming a pattern that open infrastructure providers are scooped up by for-profit
"data services/analytics" companies (these are no longer "publishers") as they *rightly* perceive that the threat to their ongoing feasting on public subsidies is open infrastructure. 2/
Sep 21, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“OA bad debt” & “industry” says it all. Less explicitly, Lisa, you’re implying that a commercial publisher that has a “legal” (threat) collections debt is critical to OA research. You’re saying some funders & researchers are deadbeats & a burden to companies who make billions.
To underscore, is it okay for commercial publishers to capitalize on research funded with public $? Yes, they add value to research & provide important services & need compensation. But they pour enormous amounts of $ into shareholder pockets with obscene profit margins.
Sep 20, 2022 • 19 tweets • 12 min read
🧵1/ We are deeply disturbed that @Harvard_Press issued a DMCA takedown order against Z Library, a so-called "pirate" library that provides critical access to knowledge across the world to those who can't afford access, nor can their universities. tinyurl.com/zfdpn32n2/ The Digital Milennium Copyright Act is one of the most heinous acts ever passed by the US Congress & Aaron Swartz, an important advocate for #OpenAccess who sacrificed his own life for his commitments to public knowledge, wrote eloquently against it. tinyurl.com/2p9py52x
Sep 9, 2019 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD.
1/ Given how the Int’l. Society of Anglo-Saxonists can’t get its act together to change its name, which is racist, & also has no problem sheltering predators & misogynists who are white men, we need to revisit our intellectual history. #RaceB4Race#MedievalTwitter#ASS2/ Some scholars favor a name-change because they believe fascist-racist hate groups have misappropriated the subject matter of their field and thus we should distance ourselves from those folk. But others say: it’s not OUR fault that happens & we don’t want to erase our history.
