Walled CultureOct 2, 2024

Where open access has failed to reform academic publishing, perhaps antitrust law will succeed

The open access movement has been trying for over 20 years to promote the widest access to knowledge. Sadly, as numerous Walled Culture posts have chronicled, what should be a matter of social justice has been subverted by clever and cynical moves from the academic publishing industry in order to retain their fabulous profit margins. As a result, the open access movement has failed to deliver […]

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Where open access has failed to reform academic publishing, perhaps antitrust law will succeed

<p>The open access movement has been trying for over 20 years to promote the widest access to knowledge. Sadly, as numerous Walled Culture posts have chronicled, what should be a matter of social justice has been subverted by clever and cynical moves from the academic publishing industry in order to retain their fabulous profit margins. …</p>

Show threadpetersuberAug 17, 2024

2/ I suspect that these articles were published in #paywalled journals. Their authors released preprints after publication as a way to avoid the risk of rejection (#IngelfingerRule) and still make some version #OpenAccess.

Depositing the accepted author manuscript (#AAM) in an OA repository (#GreenOA) would have let them share the peer-reviewed text, not just a preprint. But when journals don't allow this and when authors haven't retained rights, then depositing an OA preprint is a workaround.