The risk of open access becoming integrated into existing commercial publishing - the need of a global system of non-commercial open access scholarly communications

Authors

  • Dominique Babini Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), Buenos Aires, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3395/reciis.v8i4.431

Keywords:

Scholarly communications, open access, repositories, journals, research evaluation, article processing charges (APCs)

Abstract

In Europe and USA scholarly communications have been outsourced and one of the most profitable businesses was built by main international commercial scholarly publishers, which today offer to take care of open access, building a new enclosure to knowledge for the Global South, and distracting governments, funding agencies and the scholarly community, in the North and in the South, from the need to build a global open access ecosystem based on shared and interoperable institutional, national and international non-commercial open access repositories and publishing platforms.  If we want voices from the Global South to have more participation and impact in global conversations about issues that concern us all, the global scholarly community has to take good care of open access scholarly communications, including the peer-review, quality control and evaluation indicators systems.

Author Biography

Dominique Babini, Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), Buenos Aires, Argentina

"La autora es miembro del Comité de Expertos del Sistema Nacional de Repositorios Digitales-MINCYT de Argentina y trabaja en CLACSO que tiene un repositorio digital regional temático y que es una organización que colabora con iniciativas de acceso abierto en América Latina, como Latindex, SciELO, Redalyc y La Referencia"

 "The author es member of the Experts Committee of the Argentine National System of Digital Repositories-MINCYT, and works at CLACSO that has a regional subject digital repository, and is an organisation that collaborates with open access initiatives in Latin America as Latindex, SciELO, Redalyc and La Referencia".

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Published

2014-12-19

How to Cite

Babini, D. (2014). The risk of open access becoming integrated into existing commercial publishing - the need of a global system of non-commercial open access scholarly communications. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 8(4). https://doi.org/10.3395/reciis.v8i4.431

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 4 (2014)

Section

Notes on current situations

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