Open Access: Utopias, realities, and unfinished business
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3145/thinkepi.2023.e17a17Keywords:
Open Science, Open Access, Predatory journals, Scientific publishingAbstract
The Open Access movement in scientific communication challenges many of the established norms upon which the scientific communication system and its evaluative model are based. If the goal is to promote a sustainable and equitable scientific system, we must move away from partisan and biased debates and address the challenges that this new scenario presents for the entire scientific communication process. In this article, we raise some of these challenges and call for a more constructive, global, and long-term debate, rather than addressing specific and superficial issues of Open Access through patchwork solutions.
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