Det är titeln på en artikel i Forbes om bristen på rättvisa och mångfald som kallas "öppen tillgång".OA om du kan betala.Vi kan men inte större delen av resten av världen. Last week, Nature journals unveiled their “landmark” open-access option. Nature journals will charge authors, starting in January 2021, up to €9,500 (nearly US $11,400) to make research papers free to read, as an alternative to subscription-only publishing. Scientists from around the world received this news with outrage and disappointment on social media. ---- To conclude, I’d like to revisit the question I posed at the beginning: Do elite, prestige journals care about equity and diversity? On paper, they claim to care. But in practice, by announcing a €9,500 price tag (notably, during the deepest global recession since the second World War), Nature has failed to enact their own diversity and inclusion pledge. They seem to have, instead, elected to remain elite, exclusionary, and divorced from reality https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhukarpai/2020/11/30/how-prestige-journals-r… Jan. -- Jan Szczepański F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora, vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63 at gmail.com