Manifesto on Science as Global Public Good: Noncommercial Open Access

"Commercial Open Access substitutes subscription fees to scientific journals by article processing charges to authors (APCs), a distortion from the original movement. Likewise, “transformative” agreements have emerged which, in practice, have become the commercial sector’s means to institutionalize a model to privatize public good: knowledge.

Thus, Open Access has been forced to adopt new denominations to differentiate commercial solutions from noncommercial, which has fenced the movement’s original objective. This is how Diamond Open Access has appeared....."