Open access — the rise and fall of a community-driven model of scientific communication - SCHÖPFEL - 2015 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library

Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in the journal Learned Publishing. [Key points] In 25 years, open access has become a significant part of scientific communication, but its success story should not conceal a fundamental change of its nature. Open access started at the grassroots, as a bottom-up, community-driven model of open journals and repositories but today the driving forces are commercial, institutional, and political interests. The fall of open access as a community-driven model is running the risk of becoming dysfunctional for scientists and may create new barriers and digital divides.