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2024-03-29 14:25 UTC
@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.
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@brembs@mastodon.social 2024-03-29 14:31
@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @villavelius@mastodon.online @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org Then I'm not getting your point? Some funders pay APCs but most APCs are paid by the same institutions that pay subscriptions. Our point was that Gates is setting an example with their policy': no money for subscriptions, no money for APCs, support for institutional infrasructure. If institutions would follow their lead, the transition would be happening.