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Post #2433592

2024-03-28 21:27 UTC

@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org The tide has most definitely turned and a clear consensus is forming - see commentary by @brembs@mastodon.social and myself on the International Science Council blog https://council.science/current/blog/the-open-access-rising-tide-gates-foundation-ends-support-to-article-processing-charges/

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  • @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie @mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @brembs@mastodon.social You write that the Gates Foundation “add[s] their voice to the chorus”, but is there actually another funder that so far has combined preprint mandate with refusal to pay APCs? Given their leading role in publishing reform, I expect that the Wellcome Trust and Howard Hughes will follow soon, maybe Chan Zuckerberg and Wallenberg Foundation too. But did any public funders announce such plans?

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  • @csmarcum@sciences.social 2024-03-28 22:49

    @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie @mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org @brembs@mastodon.social excellent analysis

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  • @villavelius@mastodon.online 2024-03-28 23:01

    @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie @mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org @brembs@mastodon.social The irony is that APCs gave Open Access a tremendous boost when they were first introduced. It is the commercial exploitation by many publishers of authors' (and funders', institutions') 'need' to have their papers accepted for publication in 'peer-reviewed' journals, yet freely available to anyone, that causes the problem, with vastly inflated APCs trumping knowledge sharing.

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  • @jgordon@appdot.net 2024-03-29 12:51

    @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie @mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org @brembs@mastodon.social What does [a federated institutional infrastructure is proposed to replace for-profit journals and their ownership models] mean?

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