Thank you, Very useful map indeed. You might find it useful to link up with Wikidata, which now has a huge bibliography of Open Access articles and also links into masses of demographic info. Also they have interactive maps with (of course) are free of limiting restrictions.
The high proportion of OA in Latin America should be well known and applauded but I'd particularly like to highlight Indonesia. They have a very active preprint culture and community but face severe financial problems: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00363-3 >>The costs can be significant, particularly for repositories run by volunteers in emerging economies. Dasapta Erwin Irawan, a hydrogeologist at the Bandung Institute of Technology who helped set up INA-Rxiv, says his repository received more than 6,000 submissions between July 2018 and June 2019, so the fees will come to about $25,000 per year, which he cannot afford. [The report ends on a gloomy note but I think Dasapta has some recent possibilities.] The amount of money they need (25,000 USD) is a mere EIGHT papers in the German Springer DEAL (2750Eur each) and a mere FIVE papers for Open Access in Nature or Am Chem Soc. We have to find a permanent solution to this. We are paying publishers for glory badges while the science of the Global South is left to rot. The recent COVID-19 pandemic have emphasised that we must think globally. The Budapest Declaration of Open Access has one of the great paragraphs of liberation: >>>>The public good [the internet] make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge. In the North we forget this. How many Open Access deals actively strive for this outcome? And how many put the benefits to authors and universities above global knowledge by propping up legacy bloated publishers? I am starting to work with GlobalSouth repositories and preprint servers to see if our Open ContentMine/Wikidata technology on COVID-19 and beyond ( https://github.com/petermr/openVirus). We are looking for volunteers in indexing, preprint technology, dictionaries, wikimedia, crawling, etc. -- "I always retain copyright in my papers, and nothing in any contract I sign with any publisher will override that fact. You should do the same". Peter Murray-Rust Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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