nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211223-124304-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211223s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211223-124304-0 doi eng 342 23 Baldini, Paula Author aut Reinforcing Patterns - Open Access and Legal Debate around the World Baldini, Paula Verfassungsblog 2021-12-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Despite its revolutionary potential, the movement towards amplifying open access can backfire if it does not expand quickly across the world. As it is today, the vast majority of authors who publish open access are based in European research institutions. By making these authors’ works more easily available than others, open access initiatives may end up dictating the terms of the international legal debate around the world. CC BY-SA 4.0 Global South Open Access Social Inequality Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/reinforcing-patterns/ raw object