"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.
Here's a paywalled editorial recommending #OpenAccess, #OpenData, and #OpenScience. The authors/editors could easily have made it OA, but they put it behind a paywall instead.
One of the funniest sagas in #OpenAccess discourse is Kent Anderson's unhinged "insurrection" series where he calls some usually unnamed cabal of OA advocates every kind of political movement he thinks is bad, no matter how diametrically opposed they are to one another. The "information wants to be expensive" part at the bottom is especially funny - "the market solves for truth" is like not on any political compass im aware of
“Everyone agrees that open-access scientific articles are great. What most people don’t know is that ‘open-access’ often means that the authors paid the journal to make their article freely available. As in, the journal was going to make money charging readers, but it charges the writers instead. And those writers are usually paying with federal grant money. So ‘open access’ is really ‘government scientific funding goes directly to for-profit publishers.’
How much money are we talking here? Sam Gershman, a neuroscientist at Harvard, estimates that it’s millions of dollars per week. Just as one data point, getting Nature to make The Illusion of Moral Decline open-access cost a jaw-dropping $12,000. This is truly one of the greatest scams of all time.”
Rumor has it that Germany is close to sealing a DEAL with Elsevier. I wouldn't be surprised if their per article payments would be above the level that caused the walk-out...
"‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees"
This article is an opinion piece in which we argue that social scientists cannot simply port their work from X to #Mastodon or the rest of the #fediverse. There are key differences in culture, expectations of privacy, and of course topology to consider.
"Much of the attention of methodologists has focused on how to recognize and control for unwanted factors that can affect outcomes of interest. But psychology is also important: it tells us that own human biases can be just as important in leading us astray"
He clarified that he means "textbook-free, not free textbooks." Hence #OpenTextbooks (#OER) won't satisfy him. But he encourages OER as if they would.
Faculty criticized him for “encouraging [them] to invest significant time” in creating “#OpenAccess materials" (OER) rather than using or improving materials from publishers.
"We are moving…into the 3d front of #OpenAccess, [which] is not about…articles, journals, publishers or deals, but…#AI-powered exploration of…research…(to include literature, data, people, organizations). (Taking Green and Gold as first two fronts…) Large [#publishers] are…well placed to offer a new level of access. But to whom & on what terms?…If/when interaction w/ the lit shifts in this way, then thinking about…open access…also needs to evolve."
We do the writing. We do the editing. We do the reviewing. We do the formatting (we typeset everything in LaTeX). We do the proofreading. We correct the mistakes introduced by proofreaders.
What do publishers do? They make us sign silly copyright forms, stamp their logo on our papers, and then proceed to charge us (either as authors or readers) ridiculous amounts.
People think academics/scientists are clever. We might be. But we are also stupid. And vain.
Unfortunately, the new software would merely "underpin" #OpenResearchEurope (#ORE), not replace it. ORE is proprietary software owned by #TaylorAndFrancis. When the EC called for bids on ORE, it did not require open code despite many calls to do so.
Joint funding of diamond #openaccess scholarly journals through library consortia is an important aspect of avoiding APCs and safeguarding fair open access. @oa_koala, run by large German research library @tibhannover, is asking for pledges to take part in the funding of several journals from math, computer science, and physics for 2024-2026. Have a look, tell your library, spread the word!
Is there a simplified version of the CRediT (https://credit.niso.org/) taxonomy of contributor roles out there? I love the idea but never got why anyone would care about about the four different types of manager or whether someone "curated" or "collected" the data used in a paper.
The story of #SciHub and its founder Alexandra Elbakyan in her fight against the global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research.