A Critical Review of Open Access Movement in Kore

This study aims at investigating the barriers against sustainability of open access movement in Korea, which have not been covered in detail, thus seeking adequate solutions. Achieving this goal would provide valuable suggestions for the promotion of the OA movement in Korea. Especially, this study could be helpful in the fundamental development of OA in Korea, where OA is in its early adoption stage. This study found that governmental support and copyright problems are the reason for the slow growth of the OA movement in Korea. This study also suggested alternatives to solve the problems: national development planning for OAK business, preparing copyright belonging rules of commercial scholarly journals, and establishing cooperation with commercial scholarly journal filed for OA.

Keywords: open access movement, Korea, OA publishing, scholarly communication.