Gary Hall<p>Yesterday I posted on the Radical Open Access list, responding to last week's Radical OA III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism conference. Titled 'What Do We Not Think About When We Think About Money?', a version of this post is now available on my Media Gifts blog: </p><p><a href="http://www.garyhall.info/journal/2025/4/14/what-do-we-not-think-about-when-we-think-about-money.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">garyhall.info/journal/2025/4/1</span><span class="invisible">4/what-do-we-not-think-about-when-we-think-about-money.html</span></a></p><p>'... when it comes to open access publishing projects, financial sustainability matters - of course. But to what extent has the toxic, 'neoliberal', 'managerialist' university shaped even us to focus on the money, funding and funding models, the business side of things, paid/free/volunteer/service/recognised & rewarded labour? Even how radical OA can capitalise on the current financial crisis of the university (at least in the UK and US)? ...</p><p>'... money is extremely important, yes, I appreciate that. But what gets lost when it becomes one of the main lenses through which we view radical open access? ...'</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/oa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oa</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/radicalOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalOA</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/radicalOA3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radicalOA3</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/academicpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicpublishing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a></p>