I am conflicted about Open Access because as a poor student-researcher I love that I can read papers freely, but as a poor student-researcher I also can't afford publishing in one. Not all institutions offer support to pay high APCs--mine doesn't. @AcademicChatter #phdchat https://twitter.com/zoophilosophy/status/1299865087943954432

In the Philippines APCs take *center-stage* when a lab considers to publish completed work. I didn't even know that institutions shoulder APCs before I went abroad and wrote a paper with foreign collaborators!! "It doesn't matter, the research office will pay for that."

Of course there's the Phil Journal of Science, Phil Science Letters, Science Diliman, etc. where we regularly publish our work because they're free and OA. But then this can limit the visibility of our work because many in academia still look at IF as an indicator of quality.