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2024-03-29 13:02 UTC
@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @villavelius@mastodon.online @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org
I don't understand? 20 years ago, people paid subscriptions. How is paying neither subscriptions nor APCs like 20 years ago? I'm not aware that Gates are paying subscriptions?
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@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz 2024-03-29 14:25
@brembs@mastodon.social @villavelius@mastodon.online @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org Funders never paid for subscriptions. Institutions won't just stop paying subscriptions even with high uptake of preprints, or physics journals would have vanished long ago. Unless a genuine replacement is offered, the prestige-based closed access journal system will remain.