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
Challenging Oligopolistic Knowledge Systems Read More »
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).
Why (Diamond) Open Access in the Global South? Read More »
‘Who Owns Our Knowledge’ hardly matters if our knowledge has little value. Knowledge is received information and information is not like other goods. Information can be bought and sold, but not easily: it is hard to disclose what is for sale without giving it away in the process.
Knowledge is not Data, Stuart Macdonald Read More »
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