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Record W4308246562 · doi:10.54590/pop.2022.006

From Pamphlets to PDFs: The Shadow Histories of Research Publishing

2022· article· en· W4308246562 on OpenAlex
Amanda Lawrence

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenuePop! Public Open Participatory · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPublishing and Scholarly Communication
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublishingCommercializationDemocratizationShadow (psychology)Government (linguistics)Civil societyBusiness modelPublicationPublic relationsPolitical scienceBusinessMarketingLawDemocracy

Abstract

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In this article I undertake an historical analysis exploring how civil society, government, industry, and research sectors have adopted and adapted various publishing technologies over time—including the printing press, typewriters, microfiche, photocopiers, computers, email, pdfs, websites, and databases—to communicate research and ideas. Shining a light on this shadow history reveals the way the centripetal and centrifugal forces of democratization, science, and commercialization have intersected with changing technologies to foster a diverse research publishing economy which features both centralized and decentralized trajectories. While scholarly academic publishing has moved from informal letter exchanges towards formalized standards of production, and eventually to the global business it is today, governments, civil society organisations, research institutions, and industry have continued to operate as small-scale, often ad hoc publishers, producing and distributing research and other publications for various purposes, using and adapting a range of technologies and business models, first in print and continuing in digital formats. The history of organization-based research publishing (grey literature) shows the ways in which a range of new media tools and technologies have, at any given time, been co-opted by groups for public influence and impact, and have continued in various informal and decentralized business models at the same time as other forms of scholarly communication have become increasingly aggregated.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.550
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0100.006
Open science0.0050.004
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.538
GPT teacher head0.421
Teacher spread0.117 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it