Open Access: the Future is Diamond | In the Dark

peter.suber's bookmarks 2023-06-03

Summary:

"As it was foretold the Council of Europe has now released a document (PDF) that calls for “transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications”.  In its conclusions, the Council calls on the Commission and the member states to support policies towards a scholarly publishing model that is not-for-profit, open access and multi-format, with no costs for authors or readers. In other words, it calls for Diamond Open Access. The covering press release includes: If we really believe in open science, we need to make sure that researchers can make their findings available and re-usable and that high-quality scientific articles are openly accessible to anyone that needs to read them. This should be particularly the case for research that benefits from public funding: what has been paid by all should be accessible to all. Mats Persson, Swedish Minister for Education, Ministry of Education and Research This is clearly how Open Access should be, though I am still worried that the sizeable publishing lobby will still try to persuade research agencies and institutions to pay the existing fees on behalf of authors, which does not solve the problem but merely hides it...."

Link:

https://telescoper.blog/2023/05/24/open-access-the-future-is-diamond/

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Date tagged:

06/03/2023, 08:58

Date published:

06/03/2023, 04:58