The way that the global north pays for publishing hampers public, scholar-led efforts in Latin America, says Juan Pablo Alperin of the Public Knowledge Project
When the Public Library of Science, a non-profit organization based in San -Francisco, California, and other publishers popularized article-processing charges in the mid-2000s, scholarly publishing in Latin America was already embracing open access using a different model: instead of charging authors, academic institutions published journals edited by faculty members. The approach is a type of ‘diamond OA’, which works without fees for readers or authors.
I know this ecosystem is vibrant and diverse because I’ve spent 15 years working at the Public Knowledge Project — based at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada — and I am now co-scientific director of this initiative to make research publicly available. I have met hundreds of journal editors who work hard, often in challenging conditions, to bring the knowledge discovered by their communities to the rest of the world.
APC waivers cannot solve this problem. They require authors to proactively ask for charity , and rarely apply to countries in the region, most of which are above income thresholds set by publishers. As institutions pay more APCs, they will feel pressure to forgo investments in the Latin American diamond OA ecosystem.
APCs beget APCs. The more funds that are available to pay them, and the more researchers who have the ability to do so, the more journals will feel pressured to charge them.
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