{"id":49078,"date":"2024-10-26T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/?p=49078"},"modified":"2024-11-06T19:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:11:42","slug":"preprints-community-over-commericialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/preprints-community-over-commericialization\/","title":{"rendered":"Preprints: Community over commercialization in action"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ability to access and share knowledge is fundamental to advancing research. However, commercial interests often mean one or both of these is restricted. <\/span>“Community over Commercialization\u201d has taken a central stage for <\/span>Open Access Week<\/span><\/a> for the past two years for a good reason. It\u2019s a recognition that commercial interests are interfering with how we produce and share knowledge through research. These interests impact the what, the when, and even, the why \u2014 and inevitably, they limit who is able to participate and how.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since their inception, preprints have provided free and rapid access to research \u2014 promoting community engagement and discussion of new ideas. However, despite numerous efforts, their potential remains largely unrealized. As a result, preprints are in many ways the unsung hero of the Open Access movement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Article Processing Charge (APC)-driven Open Access has created a perfect storm \u2014 the perverse incentives for authors to publish met the perverse incentives for publishers to publish. And, rather than solving issues of inequity in publishing, it just flipped them from who can afford to read to who can afford to publish.<\/span><\/p>\n

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