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This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.

"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.

In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
researchprofessionalnews.com/r

#Europe #RightsRetention

6 May 2023 at 13:15 | Open on fediscience.org
25 comments
Ken Tindell

@petersuber Long past the time when these rent seekers should have been crushed.

6 May 2023 at 13:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Jason_Dodd
Dr. JJ 🔵
Jamie

@petersuber This reminds me, if I understand correctly, of what Aaron Swartz was seeking to bring about. Sadly ten years too late to be of any comfort to him.

6 May 2023 at 14:40 | Open on mas.to
Dillon Jones - Biologist

@petersuber the "W/O authors having to pay the fee" is huuuuuge. It's been the biggest very valid detraction from these arguments. So happy to see this!

6 May 2023 at 15:03 | Open on mastodon.social
Nick

@petersuber Open access is certainly desirable, no author fees obviously sounds good, and I agree that if it would be better if journals were not-for-profit ventures, but I'm unclear how the significant work performed by the journal staff will be funded if we remove both embargoes and author fees.

6 May 2023 at 15:13 | Open on qoto.org
Georg Ramer

@internic @petersuber

That work could be done by university library staff, for example.

I feel like if APCs had been at a level that appeared reasonable to authors and publishers had given the impression that they were honest actors rather behaving like bridge trolls we wouldn't be in this situation.

6 May 2023 at 18:01 | Open on mastodon.social
GhostOnTheHalfShell
Jennifer

@petersuber I want this to work!! So badly!
also, when looking at the Open Research Europe journal, it’s even more than this. It’s also open-access peer-review, the possibility to revise the paper, and having an actual conversation about the paper?! Sounds like publishing heaven to me!

6 May 2023 at 15:33 | Open on hci.social
Tanquist

@petersuber
Good. Years ago, I uploaded one of my papers so I could read another paper. The company has been spamming me ever since.

6 May 2023 at 15:39 | Open on masto.ai
Mate Soos
Dana Hurley

@petersuber would also be great if it could improve publishing of negative results. So hard to get a journal to accept a negative results study.

6 May 2023 at 16:14 | Open on mas.to
Kevin Schwarz

@danah @petersuber@fediscience. True, although there is the Journal of Negative Results. jnr-eeb.org/index.php/jnr/inde

6 May 2023 at 17:40 | Open on mastodon.social
Joxean Koret (@matalaz)
Bø!rge

@petersuber Fucking finally! Fantastic news!

6 May 2023 at 16:25 | Open on tutoteket.no
Boris

@petersuber Aaron legacy. Long overdue and still highly expected.

6 May 2023 at 17:12 | Open on framapiaf.org
Paul Sutton

@petersuber

This seems to be very similar to the campaign by the @fsfe PublicMoney{ublicCode #PMPC that code written using public funds should be free software. Great idea. If research is funded via taxation then taxpayers partly own that research. OpenAccess is really important for other people to read, and build on.

6 May 2023 at 17:15 | Open on qoto.org
Web Designer
Wokebloke (call me Doug)
Old Stone Man
Alex Afouxenidis
costrike
gz

@petersuber
About time the leeches were ousted.

6 May 2023 at 18:47 | Open on sfba.social
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