“Open access must work for everyone” - Research Information

"the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association – released a new position paper marking an expansion of focus: it not only matters that open access is the predominant output for scholarship, but also how and for whom open access works.

This shift in imperative  — an outcome of work on delivering a global transition to 100% open access — is described alongside a distillation of the five biggest problems in open access, and an exploration of how three interlocking barriers limit participation. 

The work reveals a scholarly publishing system “optimised for scale, efficiency and standardisation – rather than diversity, inclusion and contextual relevance.“. Systemic issues and sector-based challenges must be addressed, and the new position paper proposes what OASPA’s own role could be."