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During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical researchers shared information to speed up innovation, demonstrating the vital importance of making scholarly research open access, says John Willinsky. Yet despite widespread agreement from publishers, researchers and librarians about the benefits of open access, there’s no clear path forward. Willinsky calls out publishers for engaging in monopolistic pricing strategies, reducing access to research, and he challenges those working in the scholarly publishing world to advocate for reforms to the Copyright Act to better serve the public good and the economy.
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John Willinsky is a founding director of the Public Knowledge Project, as well as a professor emeritus at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education and a limited-term professor at Simon Fraser University.
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