Recommendations for Scholarly Publishers and Journal Editors to Mitigate Barriers to Open Access Publishing for Researchers with Weak Institutional Ties

The recommendations aim to provide a basis for keeping the publication process as free as possible from barriers for authors with weak institutional ties, in order to enable an inclusive and epistemically just scientific publication system. The recomendations were developed at the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in the course of the IDAHO project (IDentificAtion of Hurdles to Open Access Publishing for Researchers with Weak Institutional Ties: Epistemic Injustice in Scientific Publishing). The project focused on the obstacles faced by researchers with weak institutional ties in open access publishing. The recommendations were derived based on qualitative and quantitative studies with weakly-affiliated researchers and scientific journals editors.