This article examines the challenges of labour provision in the open-access online scholarly publishing environment. While the technological underpinnings of open access imply an abundance, it is also the case that the labour that remains necessary in publishing processes is based on a set of economics that are scarce: the availability of human time, effort, and expertise. I here argue, with a demonstration of some of the labours of XML typesetting, that we are unlikely to realize the transformations of an abundant proliferation of scholarship without a substantial change and redistribution of labour functions to authors, which is unlikely to be socially accepted. The resultant outputs from this process would also, I argue, be less likely to be machine readable and semantically rich, thereby conflicting with other imagined digital possibilities.

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开放出版、数字丰富和稀缺劳动力

本文探讨了开放获取在线学术出版环境中劳动力供应的挑战。虽然开放获取的技术基础意味着丰富，但在出版过程中仍然需要的劳动力也是基于一组稀缺的经济学：人力时间、努力和专业知识的可用性。我在此论证，通过对 XML 排版的一些劳动的演示，我们不太可能实现学术大量扩散的转变，而没有对作者的劳动职能进行实质性改变和重新分配，这不太可能被社会接受。我认为，这个过程的结果输出也不太可能是机器可读的和语义丰富的，从而与其他想象的数字可能性相冲突。