<div dir="ltr">Open access is not simply a matter of access to free articles. Readers need the infrastructural means for accessing online content. In the Global South access is impeded by exorbitant costs of bandwidth.<div><br><a href="https://theconversation.com/open-access-is-not-free-someone-is-doing-the-work-someone-is-paying-46557">https://theconversation.com/open-access-is-not-free-someone-is-doing-the-work-someone-is-paying-46557</a></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000ff">​Also see: <a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Self-Hosting_Value_Proposition">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Self-Hosting_Value_Proposition</a>​</font></b></div><br></div></div>