Editorial: Is Open Access for You? It Depends Who You Are

摘要

Open-access (OA) publication was supposed to transform scholarly publishing. As a potentially transformative force, it’s often described in terms I associate more with populism and overthrow than science [3]. And yet despite being around for 25 years, only 15% of articles are published OA [18]. That proportion in first-tier journals of our specialty like Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® likely is much smaller.