ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two particular aspects of the opening of academic knowledge production: the transition from a political economy of scarcity to one of abundance, and the business strategies of large for-profit publishers, who are responding to the growing demand for data and information about open knowledge. The open access movement(OA) was largely defined by three manifestos: the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. For many proponents of openness, however, neither retraction nor revision is a problem. Therefore, open access to knowledge may be better than an environment where much academic knowledge is closed, but focusing too closely on the openness may be distracting us from the ways that capital is sneaking in the back door and enclosing the very tools we need to make sense of this new world.
