The Stratified Economics of Open Access
John Willinsky,
Economic Analysis, Policy,
Apr 28, 2009
Good article that looks in some depth at the nature and history of open access, and challenges the conditions publishers set as preconditions to open access: sustainability and pricing levels. "Two things are troubling about this picture, despite the wonderfully promising aspect of universal access to research and scholarship. The publishers want to sustain a stratified economy that (a) has yet to be justified in any substantive way and (b) comes with a total price tag that the academic community has declared on more than one occasion to be 'unsustainable'." See more articles on open access from the journal Economic Analysis and Policy (a fully open access journal).
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