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Non-profit journals as a solution to open science?

Publishers charge researchers incredible amounts to remove paywalls from their own papers...and make unbelievable profits from doing so. Several have an >30% profit margin.

Initiatives such as @PeerCommunityIn provide an alternative: open access, non-profit journals that are free to publish in.

peercommunityin.org/
peercommunityjournal.org/
#OpenScience #Science #AcademicChatter @academicchatter
Graph (2013): @alexh alexholcombe.wordpress.com/201

Zotero just informed me that a paper in my database has been retracted. What an excellent feature for a reference management system to have! As if I needed additional reasons to love Zotero even more than I already did 🤩

Recherche : le coût des publications scientifiques en accès ouvert en forte augmentation
Une étude commandée par le ministère de la recherche révèle que les montants pour frais de publication d’articles sont en forte hausse et conclut, qu’à terme, un changement de modèle économique s’impose.

lemonde.fr/sciences/article/20]

Congratulations to the first five recipients of the Global Participation Fund “Community Development and Outreach” and “Technical Integration” grants! 🎉

We are excited to see these projects take off and encourage future applicants to stay tuned for more opportunities to submit proposals.

Look for the next round of applications in the spring. bit.ly/3ZLJqqB #openresearch

RT @Philippe_Auge
Je présidais ce matin le comité d'orientation stratégique de l'atelier de la donnée @umontpellier @pei_ en présence d'Isabelle Blanc @sup_recherche. La gestion des #données de la recherche est un axe important de notre politique de #science ouverte. #RechercheDataGouv

RT @MicrobiomDigest@twitter.com

Whoa.
Manuscript sent to @ScienceDirect@twitter.com's International Journal of Hydrogen Energy gets desk-rejected because it did not have enough citations from its own journal.
That is one way to get an impact factor of 7.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/st

Just received my outfit for next @ORCID_Org board meeting in Paris !

Will surely have to wear it.

🗓️Du 13 au 16 mars, c'est la Love #Data Week de l'Université de Lorraine ! Ateliers en ligne, journée d'étude, marathon des #données, quizz vous attendent ➡️factuel.univ-lorraine.fr/node/ avec notamment : @fresseng
@AMDAC_MESR
@annelhote
@SebOliveau
@Huma_Num
@PNDBiodiv
@dataterra
@IFB_Bioinfo

@Calimaq @marind Bonjour ! Enquête faite, la loi espagnole protège les auteurs car elle a préséance sur tout contrat signé avec un éditeur. Inutile donc pour les auteurs espagnols de négocier avec les éditeurs : la loi les protège et ils peuvent immédiatement déposer en archive ouverte.

@rastinza @erinnacland @MatteoCarandini @academicchatter

Yes indeed, it is a long road until researchers take back the whole of their publishing activity. Yet, there is hope. For instance, in France, almost two thirds of the papers published in 2020 are open, and it is growing.

You can find all the details here, in French and in English : barometredelascienceouverte.es

@rastinza @erinnacland @MatteoCarandini @academicchatter Do you mean Sci-Hub allows academics to keep publishing closed access, knowing that Sci-Hub gives free (but illegal) access?

A more hopeful reading is that free access, whether via PMC, self-archiving, authors emailing, or Sci-Hub, steadily undermines toll access and enables libraries to cancel or renegotiate Big Deals and move to a world of universal, immediate, open access. #OpenAccess

#Twitter vs. #Mastodon: from #platforms to #protocols

«The reputational crisis caused in Twitter by Elon Musk’s erratic management, and the consequent loss of users and advertisers, raises concerns about the future of science communication on social networks».
jlori.medium.com/twitter-vs-ma

#SciComm #ScienceMastodon #TwitterMigration @academicchatter

Mastodon may well be the last bastion of reverse chronological sort order #TwitterMigration

Starting 2023, four universities are pausing or ending their Elsevier subscription due to exorbitant pricing.

Elsevier's subscription was costing them ~10% of their Libraries' entire budget.

"Elsevier’s prices have increased each year and have outpaced inflation"...this is despite Elsevier having the highest profit margins of virtually any other industry or publisher.

via dailyemerald.com/news/pressing
Figure via @MatteoCarandini
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #Science @academicchatter

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