The Global Transition Has Already Happened – It's Just Not the One You Expected (Part 1 of 2) - The Scholarly Kitchen

"For many years now, the dominant discourse around the future of scholarly communication has centered on two assumptions:

First, that charging people for access to scholarly products is morally unacceptable, and must be eradicated by means of a global transition to open access (OA).

Second, that this global transition from toll access to OA is inevitable (if not happening as quickly as it should be).

I’m going to push back on both of those assumptions. In the first part of this two-part essay, I’ll address the second; tomorrow, I’ll address the first, offering (in the form of a “modest manifesto”) a very different vision for the future of our global scholarly communication ecosystem."