Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Colonial Influences -- Epistemic Alienation in African Scholarly Communications: Open Access as a Pharmakon / Thomas Herv�e Mboa Nkoudou -- Scholarly Communications and Social Justice / Charlotte Roh, Harrison W. Inefuku, and Emily Drabinski -- Social Justice and Inclusivity: Drivers for the Dissemination of African Scholarship / Reggie Raju, Jill Claassen, Namhla Madini, and Tamzyn Suliaman -- Can Open Scholarly Practices Redress Epistemic Injustice? / Denisse Albornoz, Angela Okune, and Leslie Chan -- Part II: Epistemologies -- When the Law Advances Access to Learning: Locke and the Origins of Modern Copyright / John Willinsky -- How Does a Format Make a Public? / Robin de Mourat, Donato Ricci, and Bruno Latour -- Peer Review: Readers in the Making of Scholarly Knowledge / David Pontille and Didier Torny -- The Making of Empirical knowledge: Recipes, Craft, and Scholarly Communication / Pamela H. Smith, Tianna Helena Uchacz, Naomi Rosenkranz, and Claire Conklin Sabel -- Part III: Publics and Politics -- The Royal Society and the Non-Commercial Circulation of Knowledge / Aileen Fyfe -- The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge / Stuart Lawson -- Libraries and their Publics in the United States / Maura A. Smale -- Open Access, 'Publicity', and Democratic Knowledge / John Holmwood -- Part IV: Archives and Preservation -- Libraries, Museums, and Archives as Speculative Knowledge Infrastructure / Bethany Nowviskie -- Preserving the Past for the Future: Whose Past? Everyone's Future / April M. Hathcock -- Is There a Text in These Data? The Digital Humanities and Preserving the Evidence / Dorothea Salo -- Accessing the Past, or Should Archives Provide Open Access? / Istvan Rev -- Part V: Infrastructures and Platforms -- Infrastructural Experiments and the Politics of Open Access / Jonathan Gray -- The Platformization of Open / Penny C.S. Andrews -- Reading Scholarship Digitally / Martin Paul Eve -- Towards Linked Open Data for Latin America / Arianna Becerril Garc�ia and Eduardo Aguado-L�opez -- The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of SciELO / Abel L. Packer -- Part VI: Global Communities -- Not Self-Indulgence, but Self-Preservation: Open Access and the Ethics of Care / Eileen A. Joy -- Towards A Global Open-Access Scholarly Communications System / Dominique Babini -- Learned Societies, Humanities Publishing, and Scholarly Communication in the UK / Jane Winters -- Not all Networks: Toward Open, Sustainable Research Communities / Kathleen Fitzpatrick.

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