open access publication

  • push for access to prior knowledges, prior research, current scientific consensus
  • open access isn’t always equitable and often requires authors to pay for it

  • Green Open Access is usually free and has licensing dictated by publisher
  • Gold Open Access incurs an Article Processing Charge (APC) - extortinate prices, published on an open licence (usually CC BY), but some venues only use this kind

  • some good irony, an article on open access publishing ending up behind a registration wall