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2024-03-28 06:50 UTC
@jedbrown@hachyderm.io @AlanSill@mast.hpc.social @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org 100%. It's always a choice.
The neighbouring university offers a service for any professor to launch their own diamond open access journal -- the administrative load is taken over for free as a service by the uni.
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@johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org 2024-03-28 08:46
@hattom@mastodon.social @jedbrown@hachyderm.io @AlanSill@mast.hpc.social Journals indeed have costs, although the “publish, store, and maintain” part is that expensive as the JOSS example and pre-print servers show. BioRxiv, MedRxiv & Co. maintain thousands of manuscripts on a fairly small budget (completely carried by funders and at no cost to the authors). The Gates Foundation explicitly said that they want to invest the money they save on APCs into infrastructure (e.g. already have their own preprint server).