To Complete the Open Access Transition, First Ask the Right Questions | Katina Magazine

"Open access outputs—particularly of journal articles—have grown considerably over the last 25 years, from a few percent of articles being openly available in the early 2000s to around 30 percent of published papers becoming accessible without paywalls by the 2010s (Heidbach et al., 2022).

Per the Curtin Open Knowledge Institute (COKI) (Diprose et al., 2023), 50 percent of journal content published from 2010 to the end of 2024 is openly available, sometimes in more than one place...

But what counts beyond the number of articles? Producing more open access content (or converting more paywalled content to open access) isn’t going to work unless we also ask deeper questions: open access how, and open for whom? ..."