Abstract

CESPEDES, Lucía; DAVILA, Lisha  and  GUZMAN (†), Víctor Humberto. Poder arcóntico y archivería virtual en el campo científico-académico. Una aproximación a prácticas en evolución y perfiles contrahegemónicos. Palabra clave [online]. 2021, vol.10, n.2, pp.125-125. ISSN 1853-9912.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24215/18539912e125.

Scientific communication among peers evolved over time to become a key propeller of paradigm shifts as regards scientific practice and institutionalization. Spurred by the importance of registration and conservation of their texts, sciences developed an archival order of their own where certain agents became the field’s archons, and scientific publishing turned into an increasingly concentrated market. While the digital revolution and the possibilities brought about by information technologies strengthened this model, new publishing and archiving practices (which can be considered as opposing the hegemonic, commercial model) were also inaugurated. In this paper we seek to account for the evolution of scientific archives in order to identify some of the traits associated to different modalities of archontic power in the field of scientific-academic knowledge production and circulation. We then reflect on the nature and potentialities of virtual archives, the diversity of open access models, and the emergence of practices with counterhegemonic traits, capable of introducing alterations, breaking with dominant models, and even suggesting a new order of knowledge archive, accessibility, and archontic power.

Keywords : Virtual archive; Scientific publishing; Academic journals; Production and circulation of knowledge; Open access; Archons.

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