Academic Publishing, APC, Featured, inequality, open access, Plan S, pure publish, read and publish, Transformative Agreements
Read-and-Publish Open Access deals are heightening global inequalities in access to publication.
One of the most significant impacts of Plan S (the drive to initiate an open access transition in scholarly publishing) has been to accelerate interest in national level read-and-publish deals. Whilst these deals have streamlined open access provision in the Global North, Jefferson Pooley argues that they lock in and exacerbate existing inequalities in scholarly … Continued