“Bundle of Sticks” and the Value of Interdependence: Building a Tools and Services Collective

In this article, we raise questions about how bundling and independence show up in the scholarly publishing industry today, both for large conglomerates and for smaller commercial and nonprofit players. We then contemplate what interdependence might look like and how it might help to transform acade...

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Main Author: Katherine Elizabeth Skinner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Michigan Publishing 2022-04-01
Series:Journal of Electronic Publishing
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Online Access:https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/1994/
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description In this article, we raise questions about how bundling and independence show up in the scholarly publishing industry today, both for large conglomerates and for smaller commercial and nonprofit players. We then contemplate what interdependence might look like and how it might help to transform academic publishing. We end with findings from the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project (2019-2022) and its Collaborative Frameworks Working Group regarding a set of initial steps that we believe publishers, tools, and service providers might take together towards developing a collective publishing framework for open source, values-aligned tools and services.
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spelling doaj-art-ad2c152897d941ffa98ef9e2582c84b42025-08-20T02:48:39ZengMichigan PublishingJournal of Electronic Publishing1080-27112022-04-0125110.3998/jep.1994“Bundle of Sticks” and the Value of Interdependence: Building a Tools and Services CollectiveKatherine Elizabeth Skinner0Educopia InstituteIn this article, we raise questions about how bundling and independence show up in the scholarly publishing industry today, both for large conglomerates and for smaller commercial and nonprofit players. We then contemplate what interdependence might look like and how it might help to transform academic publishing. We end with findings from the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project (2019-2022) and its Collaborative Frameworks Working Group regarding a set of initial steps that we believe publishers, tools, and service providers might take together towards developing a collective publishing framework for open source, values-aligned tools and services.https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/1994/scholarly communicationcollaborationcollective publishingacademic publishingmission-drivenvalues and principles
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“Bundle of Sticks” and the Value of Interdependence: Building a Tools and Services Collective
Journal of Electronic Publishing
scholarly communication
collaboration
collective publishing
academic publishing
mission-driven
values and principles
title “Bundle of Sticks” and the Value of Interdependence: Building a Tools and Services Collective
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title_fullStr “Bundle of Sticks” and the Value of Interdependence: Building a Tools and Services Collective
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title_short “Bundle of Sticks” and the Value of Interdependence: Building a Tools and Services Collective
title_sort bundle of sticks and the value of interdependence building a tools and services collective
topic scholarly communication
collaboration
collective publishing
academic publishing
mission-driven
values and principles
url https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/1994/
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