The authors of Labour of Love: an Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences bemoan a scholarship system driven by profit, prestige and Global North exclusivity which threaten to overtake the Open Access Movement. Citing several discipline-specific cases that both undermine and advance open access, this Manifesto offers recommendations for authors, senior scholars, deans and provosts, librarians and journal editors to pursue and support “scholarship that is collaboratively and responsibly built and shared.” The authors acknowledge the additional stresses of Covid-19 on libraries and urge librarians to “consider supporting scholar-led publishing, whether by small subventions to projects led by faculty and staff at your institution or (more boldly) projects that originate elsewhere but that contribute to a knowledge commons from which all can benefit.”
