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Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward – Scholarly Kitchen (A.J. Boston | April 2022)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on May 26, 2022
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, Journal, Research results, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On April 26, 2022

A globe with the zipper around it running North to South, open part worry with circuits inside.

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by A.J. Boston. A.J. is the Scholarly Communication Librarian for Murray State University, located in scenic Western Kentucky, USA.

Watching cOAlition-S ratchet up urgency around open access has been an object lesson in the power that funders can wield when they coordinate around an issue. Spurred by the funder-led push for authors to make their works open access, research institutions have been signing read-and-publish deals and these have swiftly accelerated the total growth of articles published as open access. But if you look closely, you will find an ideological movement has arisen that objects to these deals (e.g., “Transformative Agreements & Library Publishing: A Short Examination” from Dave Ghamandi, “Message from the Grassroots” by Camille Marcos Noûs, and “Transformative agreements: Six myths busted” from a group of librarians and research funders) from those that otherwise favor open access. A common theme of these critiques, and related discourse more broadly, can be characterized with one word:  Equity.

The march towards open access continues, but the issues in play aren’t quite what we have been told.  Without care, great improvements in equity and fairness in science won’t be realised.  Publication fees will lock out revenue-poor countries just as expensive subscription fees did.  This reflective piece in Scholarly Kitchen piece dives into the issues in a way not discussed previously.  This is a recommended read for anyone involved in research outputs.  We have included links to five related items.

Notice that the theme of International Open Access Week for the past four years has consistently included that root word, equity. Open access may be on the rise, but do mechanisms such as article publishing charges and read-and-publish deals keep equity a part of this transformation? Many in the open movement, “declare equity as a goal,” Ross-Hellhauer recently wrote, but he argued that, “without more critical thought, open science could become just the extension of privilege.” Ross-Hellhauer is correct to the extent that many current iterations of open access (and open science) need be tied to individuals’ or institutions’ ability to pay to play. This does not have to be the case. In fact, it should never be the case. What went wrong? Where did we lose the plot?

The Wrong Solution

The original BOAI set out a goal for peer-reviewed journal literature to be made freely accessible online, either through self-archiving or open access journals. The complexity of the self-archiving route can be difficult to explain to authors or convince them to take action. On the other hand, while read-and-publish deals aren’t easy, they do help institutions remove some ambiguity about copyright, journal choice, and funding pools. Additionally, read-and-publish allows an institution to nobly address the need for global citizens to freely consume works, especially those produced by that institution.

Guest Post: Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward
A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.

Related Reading

An open-access history: the world according to Smits – Nature (Book review: Richard Van Noorden | March 2022)

Open science, done wrong, will compound inequities – Nature (Tony Ross-Hellauer | March 2022)

Balancing openness with Indigenous data sovereignty: An opportunity to leave no one behind in the journey to sequence all of life (Ann M. Mc Cartney, et al | January 2022)

(France) France to back not-for-profit diamond journals – Times Higher Education (David Matthews | July 2021)

Open Access: A Look Back – Scholarly Kitchen (David Crotty | October 2018)

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