LibGuides: Open Access: a guide for researchers: Open Access & Democratising Knowledge

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Paywall The Business of Scholarship

Paywall
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.

What happens when science, money, and freedom of information collide?

Democratising Knowledge

Articles

Subbiah Arunachalam (2017)

Social Justice in Scholarly Publishing: Open Access Is the Only Way The American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 17, Iss. 10, 2017

https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2017.1366194

Danielle Padula (2017)

Three ways to support the democratisation of academic journals, , LSE Impact Blog

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/04/11/three-ways-to-support-the-democratisation-of-academic-journals/

Koutras, Nikos (2017) "Open Access: A Means for Social Justice and Greater Social Cohesion," Seattle Journal for Social Justice: Vol. 16 : Iss. 1 , Article 12. https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjsj/vol16/iss1/12/

Harrison W. Inefuku (2017) Globalisation open access and the democratization of knowledge , EduCause Review.

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/7/globalization-open-access-and-the-democratization-of-knowledge

Heller, M. & Gaede, F., (2016). Measuring Altruistic Impact: A Model for Understanding the Social Justice of Open Access. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. 4, p.eP2132. DOI: http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2132

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