A Global-Local Strategy for Open Access - ScienceDirect

Abstract "The scholarly outputs from the main-land of China surge at an unpreceded speed in the past three decades1, causing not only the reshaping of the publication landscape, but also a recent worry on China’s building for its own publishing realm2, especially under the current situation when Open Access (OA) movement reaches the critical half-way point. This Editorial/Commentary aims to suggest a global-local strategy for OA, to facilitate an eastward (or southward) adjustment of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) publications, to observe integrity for both researchers and OA journals, and to transform the STM publications by making OA affordable for the Global South. The “global-local strategy” refers to a more geographically balanced strategy which concerns not only the global scientific excellence but also diversity of the local culture. The STM publication network should have a T-shaped architecture composed of global platforms and local hubs, so that to be recognized and trusted by researchers everywhere in the world."