Transformative Works and Cultures (Mar 2022)

What If Academic Publishing Worked Like Fan Publishing? Imagining the Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2253
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 37

Abstract

Read online

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.

Keywords