Brenda Wingfield, University of Pretoria & Bob Millar, University of Pretoria, Quartz; The open access research model is hurting academics in poorer countries
"There is however, little focus on the costs of open access to
researchers in the developing world. Most people we have spoken to
inside academia are under the impression that these costs are waived.
But that’s only the case for some journals in 47 of the world’s “least developed” nations; researchers in the 58 other countries in the developing world must pay the full price...
The cost of a PlosOne article is 20% of the cost of a Masters student’s
scholarship. So the choice is “do I give a Masters student a
scholarship, or publish more in open access journals?” We are trying to
do both and we are sure that’s the approach many research programs are
trying to take. But as more journals take the open access route this is
going to be more difficult. In future, if we want to publish more
articles in open access journals, we will have to reduce the number of
Masters, Doctoral and post doctoral students in our programs."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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