October 2, 2025Open Access

Consortial funding and downward price pressure for open access

Key Points

The OA movement is not uniform, with distinct factions advocating different goals for open access.
Some advocates believe publishing labor should be voluntary, while others support a shift to gold open access.
The need for consortial funding highlights the pressure on price structures in open access publishing.
Diverse perspectives within the OA movement can lead to tensions regarding the future direction of open access.

Abstract

Different groups of open-access advocates want different things to be achieved by OA. The "OA movement" is not a homogenous group. Some members of the group believe that all publishing labour is unncessary or could/should be volunteerist. Others want to allow people to read green open access accepted versions, but are happy to leave it at that. Some want a wholesale flip to gold open access and accept that it might cost more.

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Martin Paul Eve (Thu,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de70f583cbc991d0a232a3 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59348/ttxht-25x24

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