FanLIS Brainstorm: What if you could publish research on AO3?

What is this document?

The archival version of a Google Document used to carry out a collective thinking exercise for the FanLIS symposium "Building Bridges: exploring interdisciplinary intersections between between fandom, fan studies and library and information science". The document became the basis of a short paper, What if academic publishing worked like fan publishing? Imagining the Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own.

Summary of the exercise

"The tools we use for publishing fan studies research influence the format that these publications take, who can read them, how they can be shared and discussed, and so much more. How would things be different if we used fannish tools for publication? Would you make a research “work in progress” with monthly updates, evaluated by number of kudos or comments instead of citation count? Or visit anon memes of research prompts when you need inspiration? Maybe use tags to develop a whole new organization and discovery system for publications? Check out some example fannish tools to fit in your fantasy workflow and add your ideas below."