This introductory article looks beyond the conventional framing of open access (OA) debates in terms of paywalls and copyrights, to examine the historical processes, institutional and digital infrastructures, and political dynamics shaping the effects of OA in development research. From a historical perspective, it focuses on tensions and crises in the relationship between scholarly and corporate publishing ecosystems. The spectrum of open access models is also examined, with a focus on green, gold, diamond and black, which tend to obscure the underlying scholarly publishing infrastructures that shape the parameters of openness and access. A closer look at distinctive for‐profit and non‐profit OA infrastructures reveals the inequitable and often neo‐colonial effects of for‐profit models on Southern researchers and the social sciences. Accounts of the politics of OA highlight processes of political capture of the OA agenda by Northern corporate and state interests and draw attention to alternative interest coalitions which are more suited to prioritizing the global public good over private profit. Reflecting on the requirements of OA in low‐resource environments, this article echoes calls for more equitable forms of openness and access in development research ecosystems, with a view to decolonizing as well as advancing OA.

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简介：开放获取的政治-非研究化还是企业捕获？

这篇介绍性文章超越了常规的开放获取（OA）辩论框架，涉及付费专区和版权，研究了历史过程，制度和数字基础设施以及政治因素，这些因素影响了OA在发展研究中的作用。从历史的角度来看，它侧重于学术和企业出版生态系统之间关系中的紧张和危机。还检查了开放获取模型的范围，重点放在绿色，金色，钻石和黑色上，这往往掩盖了影响开放性和获取参数的基础学术出版基础设施。仔细研究独特的营利性和非营利性OA基础设施，可以发现营利性模型对南方研究人员和社会科学的不平等影响，而且常常是新殖民主义的影响。OA的政治观点突出了北方公司和国家利益对OA议程进行政治控制的过程，并引起人们对替代利益联盟的关注，这些联盟更适合于优先考虑全球公共利益而不是私人利益。考虑到低资源环境中OA的需求，本文回应了在开发研究生态系统中要求更公平形式的开放性和访问性，以实现非殖民化和推进OA的要求。