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<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">As any movement grows and flourishes, decisions made will turn out to have unforeseen consequences. Achieving
the goals of the movement requires critical reflection and occasional changes in policy and procedure.The purpose of this post is to point out that the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) appears to be inadvertently acting as a handmaiden to at least
one despotic government, facilitating dissemination of works subject to censorship and rejecting open access journals that would be suitable venues for critics of the despotic government. There is no blame and no immediately obvious remedy, but solving a problem
begins with acknowledging that a problem exists and inviting discussion of how to avoid and solve the problem. OA friends, please consider this such an invitation.</span>
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<div><font color="#111111" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Sustaining the knowledge commons full post:</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#111111" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;"></span></font><a href="https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/08/14/doaj-handmaiden-to-despots-or-oa-we-need-to-talk/" id="LPlnk360933">https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/08/14/doaj-handmaiden-to-despots-or-oa-we-need-to-talk/</a>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Dr. <span style="font-size:12pt">Heather Morrison</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa<br>
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Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706" class="OWAAutoLink">https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706</a></p>
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