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"html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://hcommons.social/@kfitz\" class=\"u-url\">@<span>kfitz</span></a></span> so... I'm nowhere near an academic expert here, but some causal thoughts (I found this very valuable as-is):</p><p>In your formulation the important thing to preserve is \"knowledge\" but I'd differ. To me, the important thing to preserve is \"students\" or more ephemerally, \"processes which produce educated students.\" I think about the fact that there are aboriginal songs which preserve knowledge about geography from thousands of years ago [1], without of course any super-durable storage medium, and it seems like the success of that knowledge preservation probably stems not from a focus on knowledge itself, but instead from a focus on processes which guarantee the transmission of knowledge. I don't see any reason why that geographical knowledge might not survive another dozen millennia, whereas I find it difficult to imagine that the majority of the various books, discs, and etchings we think of a archives right now will reliably live another 100 years, let alone a single thousand. The university has been an (imperfect, exclusionary, etc. as you rightfully point out) site of knowledge transfer as well as production, and while I think that humans of the future are always going to find ways to produce knowledge, the good parts of the knowledge transfer mechanisms that exist today are to my mind the most valuable things to preserve as universities trend towards collapse. As long as we can preserve both knowledge transfer practices and institutions that perpetuate those practices and sustain the individuals who engage in them, the knowledge itself will be carried forward. If we can't do that, then no amount of writing down or archiving our knowledge will work because it won't even have an interested audience in the future.</p><p>Along the same lines, when us academics think of our legacy in terms of publications and citations, we neglect to think of the perhaps more important (though much less visible/attributable) impact that our teaching has. For me, thinking about the potential end of my institution and/or my role in it inspires me most to think very critically about how I interact with however many classes of students I have left. Are there things they need to hear that I've been afraid to say because of institutional forces that are going to cast me aside regardless? How can I help equip them best for the endings and new beginnings that are happening now?</p><p>Thanks for your great and very thought-provoking piece!</p><p>[1] <a href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049182.2015.1077539\"><span>https://www.</span><span>tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108</span><span>0/00049182.2015.1077539</span></a></p>",
"text": "@kfitz so... I'm nowhere near an academic expert here, but some causal thoughts (I found this very valuable as-is):\n\nIn your formulation the important thing to preserve is \"knowledge\" but I'd differ. To me, the important thing to preserve is \"students\" or more ephemerally, \"processes which produce educated students.\" I think about the fact that there are aboriginal songs which preserve knowledge about geography from thousands of years ago [1], without of course any super-durable storage medium, and it seems like the success of that knowledge preservation probably stems not from a focus on knowledge itself, but instead from a focus on processes which guarantee the transmission of knowledge. I don't see any reason why that geographical knowledge might not survive another dozen millennia, whereas I find it difficult to imagine that the majority of the various books, discs, and etchings we think of a archives right now will reliably live another 100 years, let alone a single thousand. The university has been an (imperfect, exclusionary, etc. as you rightfully point out) site of knowledge transfer as well as production, and while I think that humans of the future are always going to find ways to produce knowledge, the good parts of the knowledge transfer mechanisms that exist today are to my mind the most valuable things to preserve as universities trend towards collapse. As long as we can preserve both knowledge transfer practices and institutions that perpetuate those practices and sustain the individuals who engage in them, the knowledge itself will be carried forward. If we can't do that, then no amount of writing down or archiving our knowledge will work because it won't even have an interested audience in the future.\n\nAlong the same lines, when us academics think of our legacy in terms of publications and citations, we neglect to think of the perhaps more important (though much less visible/attributable) impact that our teaching has. For me, thinking about the potential end of my institution and/or my role in it inspires me most to think very critically about how I interact with however many classes of students I have left. Are there things they need to hear that I've been afraid to say because of institutional forces that are going to cast me aside regardless? How can I help equip them best for the endings and new beginnings that are happening now?\n\nThanks for your great and very thought-provoking piece!\n\n[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049182.2015.1077539"
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"html": "<p>\"its those pieces that I think have most to share about the call for collective, collaborative, coalition-oriented behavior that I would like to cultivate in institutions of higher education, as we seek to survive the extinction events were now facing.\" </p><p><a href=\"https://kfitz.info/after-the-end/\"><span>https://</span><span>kfitz.info/after-the-end/</span><span></span></a></p><p>Wise words from <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://hcommons.social/@kfitz\" class=\"u-url\">@<span>kfitz</span></a></span> </p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter\">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/academia\">#<span>academia</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"p-category\" href=\"https://hcommons.social/tags/academia\">academia</a>\n<a class=\"p-category\" href=\"https://hcommons.social/tags/academicchatter\">academicchatter</a>\n<a href=\"https://kfitz.info/after-the-end/\">After the End</a>",
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"html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://hcommons.social/@kfitz\" class=\"u-url\">@<span>kfitz</span></a></span> This essay reminds me of Niven and Pournelles “The Mote in Gods Eye”. One might say that “making good ruins” is exactly what the (fictional) Moties did?</p>",
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"text": "Good essay. Have you read \"Panic Now?: Tools for Humanizing\"? If you haven't, I suggest it. It is a short book, kind of in a Dark Mountain vein. And it contains a good discussion of AI, he touches on things I haven't seen elsewhere."
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"html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://hcommons.social/@mpe\" class=\"u-url\">@<span>mpe</span></a></span> Oooooh, yes! Thanks for pointing me to it!</p>",
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"html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://hcommons.social/@kfitz\" class=\"u-url\">@<span>kfitz</span></a></span> I look forward to reading this! Many years ago now, I co-edited a collection on The Abolition of the University. It might be of interest?: <a href=\"https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/446/\"><span>https://</span><span>olh.openlibhums.org/collection</span><span>s/446/</span></a></p>\n<a href=\"https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/446/\">Open Library of Humanities |\n \n Collection:</a>",
"text": "@kfitz I look forward to reading this! Many years ago now, I co-edited a collection on The Abolition of the University. It might be of interest?: https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/446/\nOpen Library of Humanities |\n \n Collection:"
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title: Publishing Workflow vs Business Model
date: 2026-07-02T13:28:07-04:00
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*Cross-posted from the [Knowledge Commons team blog](https://about.hcommons.org/2026/07/02/publishing-workflow-vs-business-model/).*
A few days ago a colleague alerted me to a thread on Bluesky that raised serious questions about the PRC publishing model, or Publish-Review-Curate, which is in active exploration and development by a range of open access repositories and publishers, including the folks behind the [PRC Alliance](https://publish-review-curate.org). I'm very invested in these explorations, and Knowledge Commons is actively working toward the development of an integrated PRCA workflow (where the A is for Assess, using repository and peer-review analytics to help authors report on the impact their work is having), so I immediately checked out that thread.
I found myself both unsettled and disappointed by what I found there. The thread is only available to logged-in users, so I'm not going to link to it, but this was [my response](https://bsky.app/profile/kfitz.info/post/3mpbnvbdb5223), which can lead you to the original thread.
The majority of what disappointed me was the broad denunciation of PRC as a "damaging" workflow without any consideration for the various contexts in which it's being deployed. A brief digression on PRC, for anyone unfamiliar with it: the basic idea is that publication, rather than being restricted to those outputs that make it through the peer review process, is instead moved to the front of the flow, through deposit to an open repository or pre-print server. Review then follows, and may or may not include revision of the deposited output. The third stage, curation, allows reviewed outputs to be gathered into overlay journals or edited volumes to further their dissemination.
The Bluesky thread took me back to all those arguments made about the problems with OA publishing, including that OA publications all rely on APCs, or article processing charges. APCs, as I have discussed at length elsewhere, have created real hindrances to open publishing for underfunded fields, institutions, and parts of the world, and have thus not only re-created but amplified the inequities in scholarly communication -- but it is simply _not true_ that all OA publications rely on APCs. There are numerous "platinum" or "diamond" OA publishers -- including our good friends at the [Open Library of the Humanities](https://www.openlibhums.org) and [Open Book Publishers](https://www.openbookpublishers.com) -- that have developed new business models that do not require fees either to read or to publish.
Those publishers demonstrate the key distinction: OA is a publishing model. APCs are a business model. Publishing models and business models are often related, but they are not the same, nor even mutually determining.
We need to bear this in mind when we discuss PRC as well: the original poster was highly concerned because he saw organizations -- though he did not share who when I asked -- proposing that "authors pay for peer review," thus undermining the very important work being shared through pre-print servers and other repositories by turning it into an opportunity for monetization and by excluding those who cannot pay from the benefits of an "elitist" system designed to promote the work of those who can pay.
I hope it's clear from my prior work that I'd be appalled to find myself working toward a new system of publishing that further undermined the opportunities for full participation in knowledge development and sharing for those who have long experienced such exclusions. But I am convinced that I am not -- and further, that PRC has the real potential to rectify those inequities, by allowing free and open publication in repositories like [KCWorks](https://works.hcommons.org) tied to community review platforms and processes like that provided by our own [Pilcrow](https://pilcrow.is), allowing scholars, researchers, and practitioners of all stripes to break free of conventional journal publishing processes and instead build their own community-derived practices for research publishing, review, and curation.
PRC is a workflow, not a business model. We should resist the bad business models and the rent-seeking entities that deploy them -- but we must seize control of the workflows and make them sources of equity rather than exclusion.
This determination is precisely why [Knowledge Commons needs your support](https://about.hcommons.org/contribute/) -- to ensure that we can keep all of our workflows open for all.