open access isn't enough

[Glenn Hampson]

In this TSK guest post (below), Naveen Zehra Minai describes how an expansion of open access may not, by itself, be sufficient to fully address the myriad access challenges faced by researchers from the “global south”---from overtaxed teaching schedules to inadequate conference travel funds to political challenges teaching sensitive topics. In addition, Dr. Minai further discounts OA’s potential based on her experience with an anthropology journal---her point being that making a journal open in terms of price/access doesn’t necessarily make it open in terms of bias/representation. The same vetting role journals perform in identifying worthy research can also be seen by some as a gatekeeping role that maintains power and authority structures.

 

 

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OFFICIAL BLOG OF: New content is now available at The Scholarly Kitchen… Aug 16, 2018  by  Scholarly Kitchen Guest Post: Challenges for Academics in the Global South — Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems For social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan. READ MORE

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