Wendy Patterson

Scientific Director, Beilstein-Institut
  • Germany

Open Access Expertise

Open Access expert

Professional Role

Other Publisher representative

Field of Open Access Expertise

Open Access advocacy Open Access business models Open Access content Open Access in general Open Access quality assurance Open Access rights Open Access tools

Areas of Open Access Interest

Country-Level or Comparative Information Market Research on Open Access Open Access and Open Research Guidelines Open Access Case Studies Open Access in Africa Open Access in East Asia Open Access in Eastern Europe Open Access in Latin America Open Access in North America Open Access in South Asia and Oceania Open Access in Southern Europe Open Access in the Middle East Open Access in Western Europe Open Access Policies and Mandates

Field of Subject-Matter Expertise

Chemistry Physics

Influencer Of

Recent Comments

Oct 04, 2021

Just for the sake of extending this argumentation a bit.. According to the recent study commissioned by cOAlition S https://zenodo.org/record/4558704, there are over 29,000 diamond open access journals worldwide – together, these journals publish 44% of the total open access content and 8–9% of the total number of scholarly articles. Such agreements lead to further stratification between the universities and researchers with strong funding and those who do not. Is this really the vision of scholarly publishing we want to support? Is this kind of agreement a strategy that is fair to the global community of researchers? Are people involved in making these agreements aware of the huge difference between the cost and price of publishing in many of the venues they are supporting with these agreements? Lots of rhetorical questions packed in here, but the point I wanted to make is that these new agreements may not be an improvement but rather a way to shift resources around and to maintain the unfair and costly system of traditional publishing. Many of us in the diamond OA community feel that this traditional system is outdated and that we, as a community, can do better.