Beyond open access: Book publishing in a metric culture
Clancy Wilmott is an Assistant Professor in Critical Cartography, Geovisualisation, and Design at the Berkeley Centre for New Media and the Department of Geography.
Clancy recently published a commentary piece titled, "Beyond open access: Book publishing in a metric culture," which is part of a larger collection responding to Matthew Gandy's 2023 commentary ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo-liberal academy.’
From the abstract:
This short commentary responds to Gandy's (2023) piece ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo-liberal academy’. It argues that the requirement for open access in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grants does not mark a major turning point in academic publishing, but rather is simply the latest trend in a series of changes which have seen academic inequalities redistributed under a metric culture.