Heute war das Webinar der @dfg_public zum #ScienceTracking und so gut es war, dass die AG des #AWBI sich dieser Arbeit unterzogen hat, so seltsam war es doch, dem jetzt am Bildschirm zu folgen.
Zwei von drei #DEAL-Verträgen sind also "a bit fishy", wie der Engländer sagt. Weder #Wiley noch #Elsevier arbeiten rechtskonform und sie haben auch keinerlei Absicht, das zu tun. Unterschrieben hat man in vollem Bewusstsein der Tatsachen trotzdem, so wie 2019 auch. (1/x)
New study: "The current level of implementation of transformative agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to fully #OpenAccess. A key finding…is that TAs maintain market concentration…The three largest commercial publishers #Elsevier, #SpringerNature & #Wiley dominate, particularly with regard to OA provided through TAs. Together, the 3 publishers accounted for 3/4 of OA articles through TAs." https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18255
"The journal was previously pub'd by #Wiley-Blackwell under a subscription…model…1989-2023. As of Jan 2024, the journal & its entire back catalogue will be pub'd by the Open Library of Humanities…Thanks to the #OLH’s #DiamondOA model (funded by an international network of more than 340 supporting #libraries), Zygon is now free to read and does not charge authors publication fees."
"The University of California’s 2023 agreement with #Wiley broke new ground on another priority for UC faculty: author rights. As part of this new agreement, Wiley will make a good faith effort to develop a new global license to publish agreement over the next six months. The goal, except for limited use-cases, is for authors to retain unrestricted rights to their own work."
Background: An APC-based OA journal (Ecosphere from #Wiley) refused to publish a rebuttal article unless the rebuttal authors paid an #APC. Kudos to Web Ecology for publishing the rebuttal without an APC. Also see the Web Ecology editorial on this case. https://we.copernicus.org/articles/23/131/2023/
L'Université de Lorraine ne renouvellera pas son abonnement au bouquet #Wiley en 2024. Elle propose néanmoins à ses chercheurs des solutions et un accompagnement afin de leur permettre un accès à la littérature scientifique dont ils ont besoin.
The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
However, they need to write more precisely. They say they object to the "full #OpenAccess model" but actually just object to #APCs. Charging APCs is only one of many business models for #OA journals. In fact, it's a minority model.
Friends of OA: Please correct this misunderstanding when you see it. Objections to APCs are not objections to OA itself. Many of us support full OA and object to APCs.
5/ Major update. The fired and resigning editors of the old #Wiley journal (Journal of Political Philosophy) just launched a new #OpenAccess journal (Political Philosophy) from the @openlibhums.
Help build or support a shadow library that isn't on some white libertarian nonsense
Then people don't have to use the above two
Destroy the multinational corporate behemoths behind the lawsuit
(Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House)
Overthrow the illegitimate government which issued the ruling
Fascist police states built on slavery & genocide are bad, actually