Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Introducing the eLife Global South Committee for Open Science | Inside eLife | eLife

"Researchers from the Global South are often underrepresented and minoritised in scientific publishing. It can be disenfranchising and exclusionary, even when it isn’t intended to be. And if you’re in a lower-income or less-developed region, prevailing structures, systems and mindsets can make it harder for you to participate in or benefit from innovations in scientific communication.

Our new model has the potential to make publishing a more inclusive enterprise, offering the benefits of scholarly review while giving authors more agency in the publishing process. To fulfil that potential, we need coordinated efforts and to hear from the communities most impacted by the inequity in the status quo.

We’ve therefore set up the eLife Global South Committee for Open Science to learn directly from our peers in the Global South, so that we can strive to overcome these barriers in the pursuit of inclusive, equitable and more diverse scientific communications...."