[Open-access] The risk of open access becoming integrated into existing commercial publishing

Thu Dec 25 18:10:33 UTC 2014

With hopes for a 2015 with advances in non-commercial open access, I share
with you a short invited opinion published in one of Fiocruz
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldo_Cruz_Foundation> (Brazil) journals
RECIIS <http://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/issue/view/53>

http://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/982/1856

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

*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.

http://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/982/1856
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