What if academic publishing worked like fan publishing? Imagining the Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own

  • Nele Noppe
  • , Ludi Price
  • , Kimberley Chiu
  • , J. Nicole Miller
  • , Erika Ningxin Wang
  • , Serena M. Vaswani
  • , Sarah Kate Merry
  • , D. E. Pollock
  • , Suzanne R. Black
  • , Rhiannon Hartwell
  • , Naomi Jacobs
  • , Paul Thomas
  • , Argyrios Emmanouloudis
  • , Erica Hellman
  • , Amy Spitz

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Abstract

    Researchers, universities, and academic libraries develop a range of tools and platforms to make scholarship more accessible. What could these scholarly communications and open access projects learn from examples set by fandom and fan activists, for example, the fan works platform Archive of Our Own (AO3)? This conceptual paper, the result of a brainstorming session by scholars and librarians, proposes that a Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own should excel at making scholarly knowledge production into a visibly, enthusiastically collective endeavor that recognizes many kinds of contributions beyond the publication of traditional research papers.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalTransformative Works and Cultures
    Volume37
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 14 Mar 2022

    Bibliographical note

    (OTW). TWC abides by the OTW Terms of Service, which explain why and how we collect, use, and process information that you provide to us. TWC uses the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

    Keywords

    • AO3
    • Open scholarship
    • Platforms
    • fan cultures
    • fan studies research

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