This is all such a headache.

Some excellent points here about commercial academic publishers and their reliance on free contributions from authors (and editors, and peer reviewers...) for profit. Here, in the case of AI licensing deals.

A great read by Dr. Marcum "Without intervention and significant reform in the culture of scholarly publishing, it will be peer review – and not unsustainable publication business models – that undermines science the most." upstream.force11.org/drinking-from-…

Scientists supported by UK Research and Innovation grants should be required to release their research as a preprint rather than receiving additional money to publish it open access, according to a UKDayOne report timeshighereducation.com/news/end-ukri-…

Article by Sci Hub creator Alexandra Elbakyan provides interesting historical context on the creation of Sci-Hub and other projects for circumventing paywalls. doi.org/10.20944/prepr…

Preprints offer authors the opportunity to publish preliminary versions of their work and share their discoveries early in their research journey. Learn more about the benefits of preprint servers in our latest blog: spr.ly/6010m4WGQ

Register for Tuesday's OpenCon Librarian Community call! I'm excited for Matt Ruen & Teresa Schultz Teresa Schultz to introduce us to the journal "Reviews: The Journal of Journal Reviews". #openaccess sparcopen-org.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

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The Incentivizing Collaborative & Open Research (ICOR) public meetings are back. The next topic will cover the growing significance of metascience for improving scientific research & its value in developing new open & collaborative research practices. Some top speakers so not to be missed! x.com/ICOR_OS/status…

The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy will go into effect in January 2025. This policy mandates preprints for all grantees, encourages preprint peer review, and removes funding for APCs. Join us for a Q&A on the new policy. buff.ly/477cPQ7

This is exciting news! #OpenAccess

A federal antitrust lawsuit has been filed on behalf of scientists and scholars who allege that six scholarly publishers conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would otherwise have funded scientific research. lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad… #Publishing #ScholComms