Elsewhere, in no particular order, I would like to thank the
following for conversations, ideas and projects: John Willinsky, Alex
Garnett, Juan Pablo Alperin, Don Waters, Kathleen Fitzpatrick,
Cameron Neylon, Adam Hyde, Mike Taylor, Jane Winters, Tim
Hitchcock, Liz Sage, Joe Brooker, Martin McQuillan, Roger Luckhurst, Hilary Fraser, James Baker and Ernesto Priego. For reading
early drafts of this book, I thank Ruth Charnock and James Emmott.
I thank all my friends and colleagues at Lincoln who have put up
with me banging on about open access, but especially Siân Adiseshiah, Christopher Marlow, Rebecca Styler, Amy Culley, Owen
Clayton, Hannah Field and Agnes Woolley.
I am immensely grateful to Cambridge University Press for their support of this volume and particularly to Richard Fisher, Linda Bree, Anna Bond, Jessica Murphy and Frances Brown. It is, of course, difficult to write about or criticise scholarly publishing within the confines and power structures of that very system. I am a believer, however, that the amplificatory power of good presses is real and that through this route this book will reach readers who would otherwise remain in the dark. While, therefore, it was a condition of this book that it be written as close to neutrality as possible, it was nonetheless brave of Cambridge University Press to let me go ahead with the project. The Press have also extremely kindly agreed to make this book open access at launch (including a form of open licensing) while selling electronic and physical copies. I was offered a royalty, but have instead chosen to donate any authorial proceeds to Arthritis Research UK, without whose work I could neither live nor work. Please do support the project by buying a copy if you are reading this online. If you are reading in print, thank you but please don’t forget that there is also a searchable electronic version available to you freely.
Some portions of the writing here have appeared before in other forms, either on my personal website or elsewhere. Most notably, the meditations on peer review in Chapter 5 appeared in a significantly altered form, yet clearly enough for the genesis to be seen, as ‘Before the Law: Open Access, Quality Control and the Future of Peer Review’, in Debating Open Access, edited by Nigel Vincent and Chris Wickham (London: British Academy), pp. 68–81. Some
