Toward a global open access scholarly communications system – a developing region perspective

Babini, Dominique . Toward a global open access scholarly communications system – a developing region perspective., 2020 In: Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access. MIT Press. [Book chapter]

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Successful development and growth of scholar-led and publicly funded open access in Latin America and other developing and developed regions, gives hope to the possibility of building a global transition to open access that will be more inclusive, sustainable, and diverse with respect to knowledge produced in developed and developing countries; a relevant goal for international conversations in science and global sustainable development agendas. We seek to avoid the risk of repeating—this time from within open access and with APCs— the traditional international scholarly communications system built in past decades, concentrated in “mainstream” journals of the Global North and their evaluative indicators, managed by commercial partners with unusually high profit margins, paid out of scarce research money, with poor diversity and low participation from less privileged institutions and countries, and with negative impacts from their evaluation systems. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.003.0033 ISBN electronic: 9780262363723

Item type: Book chapter
Keywords: open access, scholarly communications, Latin America, developing regions
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy
Depositing user: Dra. Dominique Babini
Date deposited: 09 Feb 2021 12:28
Last modified: 09 Feb 2021 12:28
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/40954

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