(23 Jul 2025) Open Access (OA) is often celebrated as a global success story, but behind the promise of openness lies a persistent issue: licensing and copyright confusion. Nowhere is this more apparent than in many regions of Asia, where OA adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile.
While much of the global conversation centers around transformative agreements, read-and-publish models, and Plan S compliance, journals in Asia face a more fundamental hurdle — clarifying what “open” actually means. Recent research, especially from China, reveals legal ambiguities that risk undermining the credibility and usability of OA content.
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