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A new mandate highlights costs, benefits of making all scientific articles free to read:
In 2018, a group of mostly European funders sent shock waves through the world of scientific publishing by proposing an unprecedented rule: The scientists they funded would be required to make journal articles developed with their support immediately free to read when published.
The new requirement, which takes effect starting this month, seeks to upend decades of tradition in scientific publishing, whereby scientists publish their research in journals for free and publishers make money by charging universities and other institutions for subscriptions. Advocates of the new scheme, called Plan S (the “S” stands for the intended “shock” to the status quo), hope to destroy subscription paywalls and speed scientific progress by allowing findings to be shared more freely. It’s part of a larger shift in scientific communication that began more than 20 years ago and has recently picked up steam.
Scientists have several ways to comply with Plan S, including by paying publishers a fee to make an article freely available on a journal website, or depositing the article in a free public repository where anyone can download it. The mandate is the first by an international coalition of funders, which now includes 17 agencies and six foundations, including the Wellcome Trust and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, two of the world’s largest funders of biomedical research.
[...] Other recent developments point to growing support for open access. In 2017, for the first time, the majority of new papers across all scholarly disciplines, most of them in the sciences, were published open access, according to the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative. More recently, most major publishers removed paywalls from articles about COVID-19 last year in an attempt to speed development of vaccines and treatments.
Despite these and other signs of momentum, some publishing specialists say Plan S and other open-access measures could be financially stressful and ultimately unsustainable for publishers and the research institutions and authors who foot the bill.
Journal References:
1.) Nina Schönfelder. Article processing charges: Mirroring the citation impact or legacy of the subscription-based model? [open], Quantitative Science Studies (DOI: qss_a_00015)
2.) Anthony J. Olejniczak, Molly J. Wilson. Who’s writing open access (OA) articles? Characteristics of OA authors at Ph.D.-granting institutions in the United States [open], Quantitative Science Studies (DOI: qss_a_00091)
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday January 02 2021, @04:31PM (2 children)
You're not arguing the same argument.
"starting and maintaining an open access journal"
cool. it should be accessible. that is not the responsibility of a private organization. that is the responsibility of the taxpayer and people they elect.
it is published in private journals because you're free to publish anywhere you want. I agree with you that the taxpayer should include in those funds we give away, a mechanism for a public journal, and the researcher should be forced to publish in it. in addition to where ever else they want to, like a private journal. but this is a completely different argument.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2021, @04:14AM (1 child)
From https://cdreimer.com/ktbb/2017/06/20/the-confessions-of-slashdot-asshats/ [cdreimer.com]
Several weeks ago I wrote about using the DMCA takedown notices to remove my picture from image websites [soylentnews.org] that Slashdot asshats kept posting for shakes and giggles. What I didn’t mention then was that three users accounts — “criemer,” “creinner” and “cremier,” variations of my Slashdot username — got deleted by management, and I subsequently created new accounts with disposable email addresses to prevent the usernames from being reused. End of story, right? Not quite. An extraordinary set of events shortly thereafter caused another user account to get deleted by management that immediately ended three months of unrelenting harassment towards me.
Confession
After I announced in a comment that I’ve successfully taken down all my pictures from various image websites, two users, an Anonymous Coward (or asshat) and “FakeFuck39” (seriously), commented that they “found” more of my pictures in a search result that I failed to notice and provided a new set of image links. What was curious was the very first link had a posted timestamp of 15 minutes earlier. All the links were recently posted. While I copy and pasted a new round of DMCA takedown notices to email, “FakeFuck39” posted a confession about the three deleted user accounts [slashdot.org].
An asshat confessed [slashdot.org] to being “cdreimer,” the user account that started this series of events [soylentnews.org] at the beginning of the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
I sent an email to my contact at Slashdot the next morning, pointing out the links to newly uploaded pictures and nostalgic confessions.
Escalation
Later that evening I got a comment posted by an asshat [slashdot.org] written in the same style as “FakeFuck39”:
I sent an email to my contact at Slashdot and went to bed.
“FakeFuck39” commented the next morning [slashdot.org] with newly uploaded picture links. This was where everything tied together. An asshat promised Photoshoped pictures and “FakeFuck39” delivered the links to the Photoshoped pictures. Could we say that the two were the same person?
Deletion
I sent off another email to my contact at Slashdot the next morning. After lunch I got an email from management that “FakeFuck39” would join the other deleted user accounts. I periodically checked throughout the day to see if the account got deleted. When the “FakeFuck39” username became available again, I created a new account to the prevent from the username from being reclaimed by its former user. Unlike the other fake user accounts that got deleted, “FakeFuck39” had two years of comment history and the last three months focused on replying to my comments. The harassment that got started when someone falsely accused me of threatening to shoot them [soylentnews.org] finally came to an abrupt end.
The asshats, of course, never went away on Slashdot. A dedicated group of Beavis and Butthead types are still replying to my comments for the last two weeks. They’re easy to ignore.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 03 2021, @04:25AM
I beg all soylentils to mod THE fat fucker down please
Also, read below why he always talk about Stan Lee.
Hey there, people, I'm creimy brown
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiney
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
Here I am at a famous school
I'm dressin sharp n I'm
Actin cool
I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all the work n maybe later I'll rape her
Oh God I am the american cream
I do not think I'm too extreme
An I'm a handsome sonofabitch
I'm gonna get a good job n be real rich
(get a good
Get a good
Get a good
Get a good job)
Womens liberation
Came creepin across the nation
I tell you people I was not ready
When I fucked this dyke by the name of stanlee
She made a little speech then,
Aw, she tried to make me say when
She had my balls in a vice, but she left the dick
I guess it's still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick
Oh God I am the american cream
But now I smell like vaseline
An I'm a miserable sonofabitch
Am I a boy or a lady... I don't know which
(I wonder wonder
Wonder wonder)
So I went out n bought me a leisure suit
I jingle my change, but I'm still kinda cute
Got a job doin radio promo
An none of the jocks can even tell I'm a homo
Eventually me n a friend
Sorta drifted along into s&m
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
Long as I gets a little golden shower
Oh God I am the american cream
With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream
An I'll do anything to get ahead
I lay awake nights sayin, thank you, stan!
Oh god, oh god, I'm so fantastic!
Thanks to stanlee, I'm a sexual spastic
And my name is creimy brown
Watch me now, I'm goin down,
And my name is creimy brown
Watch me now, I'm goin down, etc.