Post #2433602
2024-03-31 11:10 UTC
@aj_boston@hcommons.social @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org @villavelius@mastodon.online @mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie
You raise a point that has been bothering me for quite some time now: individual mandates. See, e.g.,
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2013/11/the-achilles-heel-of-open-access-mandates/
from 2013, or
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2018/11/maybe-try-another-kind-of-mandate/
from 2018.
What we really need are mandates on institutions, not individuals. Institutions are paying the money that keeps the legacy system going. Institutions are multipliers, each iwth hundreds, some even with thousands of researchers.
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@brembs@mastodon.social 2024-03-31 11:13
@aj_boston@hcommons.social @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org @villavelius@mastodon.online @mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie The situation with individual mandates in scholarship is analogous to individual responsibility for the climate crisis: it lets the big fish off the hook! Just like the big emitters need to be regulated to combat the climate crisis, scholarly institutions need to be incentivized to shift their money away from the legacy system.