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petersuber

The editorial board of the 52-yr old _Journal of Human Evolution_ just resigned to protest #Elsevier's interference with editorial practices, reducing journal quality, and insistence on a high #APC ($3990), reducing its affordability to authors in the field. "We all care deeply about the journal, our discipline, and our academic community; however, we find we can no longer work with Elsevier in good conscience."
retractionwatch.com/wp-content

There's no sign yet that the editors will launch a new #OpenAccess journal somewhere else. So I've not yet added it to the #OAD list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence
oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journa

#Resignations
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petersuber

I just got two pieces of spam in one week from _Medical Sciences_, an #MDPI journal. The first invited me to submit an article and offered me a discount on its #APC. The second nagged me for not responding the first.

I'm not a medical researcher. My fields are philosophy, law, and open access. This is easy to discover in a simple web search.

If this medical journal knows my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me? If it doesn't know my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me?

Does it realize that its emails prove that it's spamming researchers at random without knowing the first thing about them?

I'm sure you get this kind of spam too. When you find time, I urge you to post about it and name names.

I don't do this often enough. Here are two earlier examples.
--July 2017
web.archive.org/web/2018080114
--June 2018
web.archive.org/web/2018080114

web.archive.orgA new journal in fluid mechanics is putting together its inaugural issue, and...A new journal in fluid mechanics is putting together its inaugural issue, and asked "some illustrious people like [me]" to submit an article. My fields ... - Peter Suber - Google+
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has served as a pivotal platform for fostering cooperation among governments, civil society, the private sector and technical communities to collectively address the opportunities and challenges brought about by the digital age. The UN Global Digital Compact (GDC) has expanded the scope of the global digital governance agenda beyond the internet-related public policy issues outlined in the WSIS consensus. It has put the spotlight on global inequality, also calling attention to the concentration of market power, the challenges posed by emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence (AI), and the need for renewed and more effective cooperation.

The process of deliberation in the UN system through the recently adopted Global Digital Compact in September 2024 and the upcoming 20-year review of the WSIS Agenda (WSIS+20) in 2025 are more than routine milestones in the multilateral process and the global digital cooperation ecosystem. They signify major opportunities to examine the adequacy of our actions and regroup to meet the trajectories of digital injustice headlong. They also are a flashpoint within which to situate, develop and push forward a renewed vision of digitality.

In that context, APC will engage with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2024 with the intention to both contribute to those conversations and to create spaces for exchange of perspectives and identification of priorities for the WSIS+20 review, including the renewal and expansion of the mandate of the IGF itself."

apc.org/node/40463

Association for Progressive CommunicationsAPC priorities for the 2024 Internet Governance ForumAPC believes that the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) remains at the heart of the internet governance ecosystem. Here we share some basic information about the 2024 global IGF, as well as highlighting this year's strategic priorities for APC.
#APC#IGF#InternetGovernanceForum
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hauschke

#CfP on #Openresearchinformation for Scientometrics, edited by Erjia Yan and @rhaunschild:

At the Paris Conference / @BarcelonaDORI we discussed the idea of such a CfP, now we have it.

I would have preferred to see this in an #OA / #DiamondOA journal. A lot of authors relevant to this field will not be able to afford the #APC. Anyway, the CfP touches a lot of relevant and current discussions and research questions. Good to see ORI moving forward, we need evidence.

link.springer.com/collections/

SpringerLinkOpen Research InformationBackground Open research information (ORI) is information on scientific research that is freely available to the public to access, use, and reuse. This ...
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C++ Wage Slave

@secretbatcave @neil
Oh, that's ridiculous. Nothing is built to last nowadays.

Last time a PSU battery failed, the manufacturer told me it wasn't replaceable and I'd have to buy a whole new PSU. The battery was replaceable, at low cost, even by someone whose DIY skills are lamentable. I'm expecting the same to happen this time.

Name and shame: it was #APC, now #SchneiderElectric. I won't be buying from them again.

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petersuber

The @aaas slams #APCs in its comments on the draft #NIH #OpenAccess policy:
aaas.org/news/aaas-applauds-ni

"Some #OpenAccess business models create new hurdles for authors & freeze in place existing inequities. While none of the existing business models is perfect, [#APC-based] gold open access is far less equitable to scientists. Gold open access leads to significant financial & professional impacts depending on one’s institution, discipline, career stage, geography or gender."

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)AAAS Applauds NIH Draft Public Access Policy for Equity Focus and Urges Revisions to Business Model and License Provisions | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)The newest version of the draft policy, which was released in June 2024, reflects many of the comments AAAS submitted during the first round of input the NIH collected for its initial draft plan last year.
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Dyne.org foundation

🌿🔌 Exciting News! Our brilliant friend and hacker extraordinaire, Elektra Wagenrad, has integrated an open-source irrigation system into her solar power project! 🌞💧 Introducing OSPIT, a sustainable energy and irrigation solution designed for community networks.

Catch the full coverage by the Association for Progressive Communications and see how innovation is driving change. 🚀🌱 #SustainableEnergy #OpenSource #Innovation #CommunityPower #APC #ElektraWagenrad #OSPIT
fed.dyne.org/post/228364

fed.dyne.orgElektra Wagenrad circulates open source irrigation system OSPIT into her OpenMPPT solar power project - fed.dyne.org
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺

Mind over model: Allen School's Rajesh Rao proposes brain-inspired AI architecture to make complex problems simpler to solve news.cs.washington.edu/2024/08 On active predictive coding (#APC).

A sensory–motor theory of the neocortex nature.com/articles/s41593-024

Allen School NewsMind over model: Allen School’s Rajesh Rao proposes brain-inspired AI architecture to make complex problems simpler to solve - Allen School NewsWhen you reach out to pet a dog, you expect it to feel soft. If it doesn’t feel like how you expect, your brain uses that feedback to inform what you do next. For Allen School professor Rajesh Rao, perception and action are closely intertwined, and their relationship can be…
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petersuber

Update. Here's another unrefereed editorial on #OpenAccess. Even after acknowledging the existence of no-fee OA journals (#DiamondOA) and no-fee #GreenOA, it asserts this howler: "OA also has certain disadvantages. First, OA is a paid service, and not all authors can face publication expenses, namely the #APC."
insightsimaging.springeropen.c

SpringerOpenPublishing in open access journals - Insights into Imaging
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Eric Schares

New preprint is out! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the publication counts per journal-year from @OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last five years.

A: $8.349 billion ($8.968 billion in 2023 US dollars) spent on APCs.

$2.5B in 2023 alone.

We also find that median APCs *paid* are higher than median *listed* fees for both gold (paid: $2,450 vs listed: $2,000) and hybrid ($3,600 vs $3,230).

arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Stacked bar chart over 2019-2023, showing by publisher and OA mode.
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petersuber

"#HarvardLibrary is launching…the Harvard Open Journals Program (#HOJP), which will…provide publishing services, resources, and seed funding to participating Harvard researchers for new academic #journals. All journal articles will be entirely free for authors and readers…The program is a direct response to faculty interest in alternatives to the article-processing-charge [#APC] model."
library.harvard.edu/about/news

Harvard LibraryHarvard Library is Launching Harvard Open Journals ProgramHarvard Library will offer new sustainable and equitable open access publishing models to advance open access scholarly communication.
#DiamondOA#Libraries#OpenAccess
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jonny (good kind)

For #Elsevier / #RELX and other massive industrial publishers, increase in paper volume in #APC-driven open access is the main source of growth that is presented to investors. More papers needed to stay afloat in always-increasing proprietary bibliometric sea, bigger profits. On the other end of the business, surveillance backed analytics tools to insurance companies and law enforcement is the biggest growth driver.

These are the companies we have paid billions in public money to over a generation. Another 13% hike in profits, now £3 billion annually. When will we find the courage to say enough is enough?

relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-

Yeah, hi, good morning. Thanks for taking the questions too from me. Firstly on STM, can you give us some metrics on the journals business for this year? Submissions, articles published, growth in number of paid‐to‐publish articles? That would be very helpful just to understand the dynamics there. Thanks. Erik Engstrom: On STM, in the journal business, as you know, the main driver of that business is the long‐term volume growth in the industry. The long‐term driver, of course, is the increase in number of researchers in the world that continues to grow and we expect to continue to grow. But how that then impacts their research activity and submission to us is a key driver, and the number of article submissions to us increased significantly last year. back to very strong growth, even if you take a two‐year average, not just the very strong one we had last year. When it comes to the submission to pay‐to‐ publish, that grew even faster. We're talking now at, depending on how you define some of the ones where they opt later, we're talking about submission growth rates in the 30% plus category, and we're talking about number of articles published in pay‐to‐publish, growing at 20 or 20‐30% range in the past year. So it's very continued, very strong growth and that looks very healthy to us.
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petersuber

Update. Here's another article that repeatedly refers to "OA publishing" when it means "#APC-based OA publishing". The trend it documents does not arise from no-APC OA (#DiamondOA) publishing.
link.springer.com/article/10.1

"OA publishing allows publishers to generate revenue during the production process…Large commercial publishing houses have gained increasing control over the OA publishing market, which is moving towards an oligopoly market."

SpringerLinkThe oligopoly of open access publishing - ScientometricsOpen access (OA) publishing is often viewed as a promising solution for the future of scholarly publishing, as it has the potential to reduce global inequalities in access to scientific literature by removing paywalls. However, the adoption of OA publishing may not necessarily lead to a decrease in the overall cost of knowledge dissemination, as Article Processing Charges (APCs) can create an additional financial burden for scholars, particularly those from developing countries. Despite being intended as a way to disrupt the scholarly publishing oligopoly, OA publishing has faced challenges in achieving this goal. These challenges were revealed through a comprehensive analysis of OA publishing from 2008 to 2020, as detailed in this study.
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