Publishing Beyond the Market

About this episode

Samuel Moore discusses the implications of the open access movement on scholarship and market control.

For years, the open access movement has promised a more equitable world for scholarship. But as more of our publishing infrastructure is shaped—or captured—by commercial incentives, a harder question keeps surfacing: if knowledge is openly available but controlled by the same market forces as before, has anything truly changed? In Publishing Beyond the Market , Samuel Moore challenges us to rethink open access from the ground up. Guiding our conversation is Heather Joseph , the executive director of SPARC. Grab your copy of Publishing Beyond the Market: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105971 This conversation was recorded on 12/04/2025. Watch the full video recording at: https://archive.org/details/publishing-beyond-the-market Check out all of the Future Knowledge episodes at https://archive.org/details/future-knowledge

People in this episode

Host: Heather Joseph

Guest: Samuel Moore

Topics covered

• open access
• scholarship
• publishing
• market forces
• equity
• knowledge control

Keywords

• open access
• publishing
• equity
• scholarship
• market forces
• knowledge
• SPARC

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SPARC, Internet Archive, Authors Alliance

Books & works: Publishing Beyond the Market

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