Session 2C | Labor and Compensation in Collaborative OER Creation: The American Yawp as Case Study

The American Yawp is the leading OER in the discipline of history. Hundreds of historians have collaborated to produce this open access history of the United States that is published by Stanford University Press. This presentation explores the creation of the American Yawp and considers it as a case study for models of compensation in the production and maintenance of OER. In so doing, the presentation will also draw on Locke and Wright's landmark article in the American Historical Review that historicizes the open access movement more broadly, demonstrating how its ideological origins in both utopian democracy and neoliberal libertarianism continue to shape the rhetoric and practice of OER.