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So, what does resilience mean for scholarly publishing?
Author(s) -
Irfanullah Haseeb Md.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1351
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , publishing , robustness (evolution) , redundancy (engineering) , resilience (materials science) , social capital , psychological resilience , sustainability , economics , inequality , sociology , business , political science , economic growth , computer science , social science , psychology , social psychology , law , mathematics , thermodynamics , physics , ecology , mathematical analysis , chemistry , biology , operating system , biochemistry , gene
Key points Resilience in the publishing industry can be viewed through a framework of assessing five capitals or assets: human, social, physical, financial, and natural capital. A resilient system requires four properties: robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and rapidity, and scholarly publishing can be seen to have some element of each. The ability to thrive in adversity and bounce back is not found in all parts of the publishing system, with those in the Global South disproportionately disadvantaged. The positive changes introduced in the past year need to be retained and elements of inequality and exclusion removed to ensure future resilience and sustainability.