These recent items assess the extent to which scholars in the global South participate in open access publishing:
Who publishes in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees? A reflection on author affiliation, knowledge production and geographic representation (LERRN Blog, March 2021)
- This is the third in a series of studies that examined the authorship of articles published in major academic journals focusing on refugee issues; to date, the journals analyzed include the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Refugee Survey Quarterly, and now Refuge. Despite the fact that Refuge is an open access journal that does not charge any publication fees to publish - a key element that distinguishes it from the other two journals, the analysis of its authorship still found that most of its articles were written by authors based in the global North. You can find the first two studies here; in addition, a webinar report of a recent discussion of "LERRN's Analysis of Refuge and RSQ" is available here.
A special virtual collection of 10 articles that focus on "Decolonizing Open Access in Development Research," published in Development & Change (March 2021). From the introductory article:
- "This special collection on open access and development research will look beyond scholarly communications barriers and ideological red herrings to consider the deeper historical processes and equity concerns underlying OA debates in development research. ...The articles and thought pieces presented here fall into three categories: reflections on the distinctive needs and visions of open access by scholars from various regions of the global South, including Latin America, Asia and Africa; reflections by Northern scholars on the implications of OA and Plan S for the global South more broadly; and reflections by Northern scholars on the costs and benefits of OA and Plan S within their scholarly and disciplinary ecosystems."
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