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Björn Brembs

YES!
This is precisely what every university (and scholarly society!!) should be doing: have their own instance and drop X like a hot potato:

"an instance has been created [... ] on university servers, which is open to the university's organizational units. The active use of X will be significantly reduced."

uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2023/un

We detail all the arguments about precisely why that must happen here:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

YES!
This is precisely what every university (and scholarly society!!) should be doing: have their own instance and drop X like a hot potato:

"an instance has been created [... ] on university servers, which is open to the university's organizational units. The active use of X will be significantly reduced."

21 Nov 2023 at 13:31 | Open on mastodon.social
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jfml ✨ Jonas Laugs
MylesRyden

@brembs
Every organization that values its reputation should be doing this.

The people who need the information from the organization will follow to wherever that information is.

21 Nov 2023 at 23:57 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
TCatLikesReality

@brembs
Yes! And media companies too

Why the NYTimes, WaPo and a few other companies don't launch a shared news server amazes me. What better way to control their content and prevent imposters.

22 Nov 2023 at 0:22 | Open on mastodon.social
Björn Brembs

If Nature magazine calls something "radical" so often, you can bet it is a new #openaccess policy that is threatening their business:

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

And of course the new #openscience proposal from cOAlition S is anything but radical. It is evidence-based, straightforward and logical - which is precisely why it must threaten the parasitic business model of academic publishers:

coalition-s.org/towards-respon

This is the right proposal at the right time, it's what academia needs, finally!

If Nature magazine calls something "radical" so often, you can bet it is a new #openaccess policy that is threatening their business:

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

And of course the new #openscience proposal from cOAlition S is anything but radical. It is evidence-based, straightforward and logical - which is precisely why it must threaten the parasitic business model of academic publishers:

31 Oct 2023 at 17:58 | Open on mastodon.social
Doug Bostrom

@brembs

"...an Elsevier spokesperson emphasized the value of the firm’s work in supporting peer review, training editors and improving article content."

Fairly sure it was an Elsevier journal that published an article containing moaning and whining from the lead author clearly intended for private consumption by an editor.

Skimming hundreds of articles per week reveals a dismal record of QC in the copy editing department. These errors arguably would vanish beneath the gaze of more eyes.

31 Oct 2023 at 18:08 | Open on scicomm.xyz
Björn Brembs

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

science.org/content/article/mu

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

and

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

science.org/content/article/mu

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

21 Feb 2023 at 11:50 | Open on mastodon.social
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