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Covering migration, the Sustainable Development Goal’s, climate change, decolonialisation and more, our journals research and explore the most critical contemporary issues.
We start with a short piece from Dr Jama Musse Jama, Editor of Dhaxalreeb at the Somaliland Centre for African Studies, exploring this year’s International Open Access Week theme, “Who owns our knowledge?”, and considers “Why (Diamond) Open Access in the Global South?”
This article has been written to celebrate this year’s International Open Access Week (October 2025). The author is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Fair Trade, a Diamond Open Access publication started in 2018 as a response to the debate, division and argument
While Open Access (OA) has made significant progress in increasing access to knowledge, it is not a lasting solution to the systemic inequalities and the structural imbalance in knowledge access, production, and sharing, particularly for scholars in the Global South (GS).
Pluto Journals publishes all of its articles under a Diamond Open Access model, which means that they are immediately available for free on ScienceOpen and JSTOR. Authors do not have to pay any article processing charges (APCs), and everyone has free and unlimited access to the full text of all articles.
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