It encourages learners to recognize their own information privilege and acknowledge that some individuals and groups are underrepresented especially in academic publishing.
Some argue that the ACRL Framework does not go far enough to teach learners of information literacy about the social injustice issue of lack of access.
[14] Marginalized groups may not participate in a society they are distrusting of and therefore the information sources they trust may not be as vast or diverse.
[16] This inequity in access if also often correlated with race and ethnicity, making it so that there are unique consequences regarding people belonging to marginalized groups.
The lack of access makes them more likely to be victims instead of critically engaging with information and content that exists in online spaces.
An advantage to providing access to information within a community is that it allows the voices of the most brilliant within a demographic to be heard when they might otherwise have been discounted or marginalized.
[18] The inherent issues of academic publishing created a growing advocacy for the open access movement.