There’s one continent with no drift to free to read research

For-profit publishers do not have the universal price-setting power they enjoyed a decade back, as government and institutions kick-back and the open-access push picks up pace. The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition provides a global guide showing how OA is expanding. The US and Europe lead the list of individual universities and systems from all over the world – but there is one major research nation that does not appear at all. We are in it this morning.