Author: D. Munday
With the open science movement showing no signs of slowing down, it’s more imperative than ever that we, as a fully open access publisher, are conscious of the need to push for more openness in research. The article processing charge (APC) publishing model, as uncomfortable as it may be to admit, naturally favors a certain demographic: white, western, middle class (often male) academics from wealthy institutions.1, 2 How can we claim to be contributing to the creation of a more fair, equal, and accessible scholarly ecosystem that, at its very core, divides researchers into two arbitrary camps: those who can afford to pay a publication fee, and those who can’t?
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