Document (#43039)

Author

James, J.E.

Title

Pirate open access as electronic civil disobedience : is it ethical to breach the paywalls of monetized academic publishing?

Source

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 71(2020) no.12, S.1500-1504

Year

2020

Series

Opinion paper

Abstract

Open access has long been an ideal of academic publishing. Yet, contrary to initial expectations, cost of access to published scientific knowledge increased following the advent of the Internet and electronic processing. An analysis of the ethicality of current arrangements in academic publishing shows that monetization and the sequestering of scientific knowledge behind paywalls breach the principle of fairness and damage public interest. Following decades of failed effort to redress the situation, there are ethical grounds for consumers of scientific knowledge to invoke the right of collective civil disobedience, including support for pirate open access. Could this be the best option available to consumers of scientific knowledge for removing paywalls to knowledge that rightly belongs in the public domain?

Content

https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24351.

Theme

Elektronisches Publizieren

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