Tracés (Dec 2018)
Accès ouvert et bibliodiversité
Abstract
The economic and material conditions in which the Journal form is produced are now well known. In a twofold context of hegemony of international scientific publishing oligopolies and of the development, at the beginning of our new century, of political reflections and technical possibilities around open access, social science journals were invited to objectify their conditions of production to justify the necessary means by which scientists intend to defend their still to be conquered autonomy and to regain some form of control on the means of diffusion of the science which they produce. The purpose of this short text is therefore to briefly refer, on the one hand, to the initiative, in 2013, of two Journals to clarify how they materially worked, their economy, and on the other hand to the result they had reached. Since then, a more global study within the French SHS perimeter has been carried out, confirming these results. Today, it is on the APC (article processing charges) front that the investigation is being conducted. One can expect the identified problems to be confirmed here as well. It is in this sense, in my opinion, that we must understand the recent initiatives, of which the Appel de Jussieu is the most recent major French example. Indeed, this question of bibliodiversity is undoubtedly the way in which the need for an umpteenth (re)connection between sciences and Journal(s) is today being formulated.
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