2021 SILS Symposium on Information for Social Good
COVID-19 Research, Open-Access Publication, and Inequity in the World of Academic Publishing
Katherine Ledson and Anna Twiddy
Open-access publishing is not a complete solution. Placing faith in it as such fails to uproot long-existing power inequalities of the open-access model.
Open-access publishing is not a complete solution. Placing faith in it as such fails to uproot long-existing power inequalities of the open-access model.
What's happening? What are some of the immediate effects?
What's happening? What are some of the immediate effects?
Unprecedented crisis: novel disease, changing guidance
Authorities such as UNESCO and others call for suspension of paywalls in the publication of COVID-19 research
Unprecedented access to media and members of the public
You can listen to Jessica Zucman-Rossi, MD, PhD, editor of the open-access hepatology journal JHEP Reports, discuss her perspective on this issue here (10:25)
"This is not just fixing a plane while it's flying—it's fixing a plane that's flying while its blueprints are still being drawn." - H. Holden Thorp, Science Magazine. Illustration by Ori Toor for The New York Times