Introduction Academic publishing has been inching toward open access for decades. Researchers want their work to be freely available, libraries want relief from rising subscription prices, and publishers need a business model that keeps their journals alive. For a long time, the conversation centered on a few familiar models, including gold, green, and diamond open … Read more
Introduction Open access was born to democratize knowledge. Fueled by the power of the internet, it fundamentally challenged the traditional subscription-based model. For years, the fight has been about tearing down paywalls guarding publicly funded research from the public itself. In recent times, the surge of open access articles has been tremendous, already passing the … Read more
Introduction In the world of academic publishing, few topics spark as much intense debate and hope, sometimes misplaced, as the concept of Transformative Agreements. These agreements, often negotiated between library consortia or individual institutions and major publishers, aim to shift the financial burden and model of scholarly communication from paying for journal subscriptions (the classic … Read more
Introduction For a long time, research has been treated like a private club. If you wanted to read it, you had to pay expensive journal fees, almost like trying to get past a castle gate guarded by paywalls. Yet, a powerful, collective movement is now surging across continents, driven by researchers, funders, institutions, and citizens: … Read more
Introduction The academic publishing world has long been dominated by a subscription-based model, often humorously referred to as a system where public research (funded by public money) is locked behind an expensive paywall and then sold back to the very public institutions that generated it. It is a brilliant, if somewhat ethically questionable, business model. … Read more