Abstract:

The integration of scholarly publishing into the global capitalist system brought both benefits and drawbacks. While market forces drove innovation and efficiency, they also created profound inequities based on enclosures, limiting access to research based on financial capacity rather than academic merit. Diamond Open Access (OA) offers a solution to this inequity by removing financial barriers for both readers and authors. However, this raises a critical question: can we abandon the market's "invisible hand" without losing its efficiency? This presentation explores how a community-led coordination model can complement—not replace—the commercial system to build a publishing landscape that is simultaneously efficient, sustainable, and equitable.

Bio:

Pierre Mounier is co-coordinator of OPERAS Research Infrastructure with Suzanne Dumouchel. He supports cooperation between OPERAS members and contributes to the strategic roadmap of the infrastructure. He is trained in classical studies and social anthropology. Pierre is affiliated to the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS); head of the international sector of OpenEdition, the French national infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the SSH, and co-director of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) with Niels Stern. He regularly publishes on digital humanities and open science topics, and more largely on the social and political impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).