Re: [Air-L] open-access is the future: no, it is not! only if it is non-corporate: the capitalist political economy of academic journals and open access

Christian Fuchs wrote:

Corporate publishing negates and hinders and alienates the freedom of academic knowledge.

I disagree. One need not buy into an anti-capitalist rant (I certainly don't) to support the freedom of academic knowledge. I think that there are business models, available to both for-profit and non-profit organizations (which each have their own strengths and weaknesses), which can make open-access viable across the board for academic publications. And I think that this is the inevitable direction the publishing industry will take, as evidenced by trends we are already starting to see in this direction. --Jibo