Post #3096689

2025-09-03 12:31 UTC

Here are two easy things YOU can do: #1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same. #2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above and ask them to support ORE, too. #3 Make *everyone* and every institution aware that they now have a choice: support parasitic corporations or the public good. By their actions you shall know them!

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@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org 2025-09-03 12:35

@brembs@mastodon.social This is great news, but from your thread I don't see that ORE actually exists yet... Or does it? If so, can you please include in the thread the link? (If it doesn't exist yet, I can't make it my primary publishing venue...)

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@felwert@fedihum.org 2025-09-03 12:47

@brembs@mastodon.social That’s all nice and sweet, but how can we make sure this abomination of “typesetting” employed on the platform does not become the new norm for how we publish and read all our scholarship? (I know that there are bigger concerns and that his should probably not be the decisive factor. But I also honestly believe that there is an aesthetic aspect driving scholar’s decisions about where to publish.)

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@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 2025-09-03 20:18

@brembs@mastodon.social The real blocker: ourselves. Will we, as members of a grant panel or search committee, or grant reviewers, and as authors: 1. stop judging a paper by its publication venue; 2. stop providing subsidised labour to for-profit journals; 3. review only for non-profit journals; 4. send our manuscripts to journals aligned with our values of openness, data sharing, democratised access, diamond open access. It’s really on us to stop this game of chicken. #academia #ScientificPublishing

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@violetmadder@kolektiva.social 2025-09-04 11:59

@brembs@mastodon.social This sounds exactly the type of project and cultural shift we need!

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@alexh@fediscience.org 2025-09-05 18:34

@brembs@mastodon.social This is the platform that Open Journal Systems got a contract for, is that right? I heard that so far it's only about $1million and I'm not sure how far that goes, so that's great they're pledging more money...

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