Exploration reveals ethical issues in contracts for open-access publishing, suggesting equity may falter in scientific publishing.
Transformative agreements — contracts between institutions and publishers that help to fund open-access (OA) systems — are widely presented as tools to advance equity in scientific publishing. But they can introduce an integrity risk: access to publishing could be used as academic leverage.
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