Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A consortium funds Global-South-led OA infrastructures as part of its open-science strategy.
- Is an instance
A literature review explicitly searches Global-South databases alongside Northern ones.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A meta-analysis that draws only from Web of Science and Scopus, omitting Global-South sources.
- Not an instance
Hiring criteria that treat Global-South publishing venues as inferior by default.
Editorial commentary
Global-South publishing emphasises scholarly knowledge production rooted in local research priorities, languages and community needs, often through diamond OA, community-led platforms and multilingual outputs. Notable infrastructures include SciELO, Redalyc, AmeliCA, AfricArXiv, the African Open Science Platform, the Asian Digital Library, and IndiaRxiv. Knowledge-equity work foregrounds the structural disadvantages these systems face: Northern indexing biases, English-language hegemony, citation cartography that under-represents non-Northern citations, and APC-driven OA mandates that disadvantage authors without funder support.
References
- Chan L, Costa Sousa S 'Knowledge sovereignty: A new global ethic for biodiversity-rich scholarly communication' 2020.
Also known as
Global South scholarly publishing · Southern publishing
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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