If South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill is accepted as is, it will be detrimental to academic content production.
- Distinguished Professor, University of Johannesburg
Bureaucracy is necessary to manage large institutions. But it can also alienate researchers from their field or discipline.
To the mark the eighth annual Open Access Week, we asked our readers what they wanted to know about the initiative. Here are their questions with answers from our experts.
Much of what’s being said in support of open access publishing misses one key point: that is there is always a value chain and costs are incurred. Someone somewhere is paying for open access.
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