open access

EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/ Note: I saw this link on Mastodon so I'm sharing it here. I'm not familiar with "Research...

full article here https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/open-access-science-funders-announce-price-transparency-rules-publishers#

"In a bid to democratize access to credible health information, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) is removing its paywall. “Up until now, if we published an insightful commentary about national pharmacare, for example, it was publicly available for one week, and then behind a...

This article was originally behind a paywall. full text here: https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l7064?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

full editorial here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2756117 (note, article was retweeted by MS who is now 65th President and Chairman of the Board of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry)

Interesting read. don't know if there is any way for people to show support to the creator of sci-hub? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science?CMP=share_btn_tw

The war to free science How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls. By Brian Resnick and Julia Belluz Updated Jun 10, 2019, 9:18am EDT ...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00135-8

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/scientific-publishing-rip-off-taxpayers-fund-research Opinion - Peer review and scientific publishing Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free George Monbiot, 13th September 2018

ETA: I have edited the thread title to now make it more appropriate to the posts below. https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-supports-full-open-access

https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/06/01/sweden-open-access-publishing-deal/amp

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/may/29/why-thousands-of-ai-researchers-are-boycotting-the-new-nature-journal

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05191-0?utm

http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2018/05/16/sweden-stands-up-for-open-access-cancels-agreement-with-elsevier/ 2018-05-16 AV ANNICA WENTZEL Sweden stands up for open access – cancels agreement with Elsevier Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities...

https://thebristolcable.org/2017/12/time-universities-fight-back-profiteering-publishers/