#openirony refers to scholarly journal articles advocating free access to publications that are only accessible by paying a fee to the journal publisher to read the article
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This has been noted in many fields, with more than 20 examples appearing since around 2010, including in widely-read journals such as The Lancet, Science and Nature. A Flickr group collected screenshots of examples. In 2012 Duncan Hull proposed the Open Access Irony award to publicly humiliate journals that publish these kinds of papers [3]. Examples of these have been shared and discussed on social media using the hashtag #openirony (e.g. on Twitter).
Typically these discussions are humorous exposures of articles/editorials that are pro-open access, but locked behind paywalls. The main concern that motivates these discussions is that restricted access to public scientific knowledge is slowing scientific progress [4]. The practice has been justified as important for raising awareness of open access [5].
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#openirony refers to scholarly journal articles advocating free access to publications that are only accessible by paying a fee to the journal publisher to read the article
[1]
[2].
This has been noted in many fields, with more than 20 examples appearing since around 2010, including in widely-read journals such as The Lancet, Science and Nature. A Flickr group collected screenshots of examples. In 2012 Duncan Hull proposed the Open Access Irony award to publicly humiliate journals that publish these kinds of papers [3]. Examples of these have been shared and discussed on social media using the hashtag #openirony (e.g. on Twitter).
Typically these discussions are humorous exposures of articles/editorials that are pro-open access, but locked behind paywalls. The main concern that motivates these discussions is that restricted access to public scientific knowledge is slowing scientific progress [4]. The practice has been justified as important for raising awareness of open access [5].
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