Who Owns Our Knowledge? Scholar-Led Infrastructures and the Future of Publishing
Location
Baker 219
Start Date
24-10-2025 12:30 PM
End Date
24-10-2025 2:00 PM
Description
What would happen if Google Scholar were to vanish tomorrow? For many researchers, it has become the default gateway to academic literature, yet its dominance also exposes vulnerabilities in how knowledge is discovered and accessed. This presentation will discuss how the proliferation of open access journals, led by scholars and published out of universities from around the world, is challenging publishing models, reshaping access to knowledge, and redefining the global landscape of scholarly communication. It concludes with a call to strengthen and sustain scholar-led publishing infrastructures—so that access to knowledge is secured by the academic community itself, not left at the mercy of corporate platforms.
Webinar from Juan Pablo Alperin (Simon Fraser University), hosted by Indiana University Libraries
Event Type
Presentation
Who Owns Our Knowledge? Scholar-Led Infrastructures and the Future of Publishing
Baker 219
What would happen if Google Scholar were to vanish tomorrow? For many researchers, it has become the default gateway to academic literature, yet its dominance also exposes vulnerabilities in how knowledge is discovered and accessed. This presentation will discuss how the proliferation of open access journals, led by scholars and published out of universities from around the world, is challenging publishing models, reshaping access to knowledge, and redefining the global landscape of scholarly communication. It concludes with a call to strengthen and sustain scholar-led publishing infrastructures—so that access to knowledge is secured by the academic community itself, not left at the mercy of corporate platforms.
Webinar from Juan Pablo Alperin (Simon Fraser University), hosted by Indiana University Libraries
