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@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @villavelius@mastodon.online @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie @brembs@mastodon.social What is wrong with subscription based journals? It’s that they can hold research at ransom. They cannot if the work is uploaded to a preprint repository. Not sure what the 1994 vision of self-archiving was, but you need standardisation and indexing - the Rxiv servers do that well. Journals can still offer formatting, dissemination & review for cash - and libraries can decide how much that is worth, from a much stronger negotiation position.