| Abstract | Open access (OA) publication of scholarly articles in journals has come to be celebrated as opening up new knowledge base to researchers, making knowledge a 'public-good'. What seems to have gone amiss is a deep-seeded exclusion and discrimination that OA furthers by being blind to authors' location. I argue that OA entrenches prevailing 'academic colonialism', without any reflection on transforming existing academic hierarchies. The paper brings forth the idea of academiccolonialism leading to a hierarchization of scholarships, wherein the authors belonging to the so-called Global South stand at a disadvantage. |
