Raju | The African Platform for Open Scholarship Advancing Diamond Open Access and Inclusivity | Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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Summary:

Abstract:  Geographic, language, peer review, and editorial biases have to be navigated by Global South authors to get published. Initially, the open access movement was praised for bridging the information access divide. However, commercial publishers have hijacked the philanthropic ethos, turning it into a business model. Publishing charges add to the aforementioned biases, consolidating the exclusion of Global South scholarship. The African Platform for Open Scholarship developed by the University of Cape Town (UCT) counters these biases by offering free publishing infrastructure to advance the publishing of African scholarship without compromising academic rigor. The platform adopts the diamond open access model to demarginalize Global South scholarship. Further, there is a discussion on the challenges and opportunities associated with creating an inclusive and equitable scholarly communication ecosystem. This paper focuses on UCT’s use of the platform to transition its commercial publishing arm (UCT Press) and to grow UCT Libraries Press. The paper will use exemplars to demonstrate the positive impact of these initiatives on the growth of diamond open access.

 

Link:

https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/18278/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.africa oa.platforms oa.no-fee oa.journals oa.infrastructure oa.fees oa.u.cape_town oa.south

Date tagged:

05/13/2025, 11:40

Date published:

05/13/2025, 07:40