Paco Martínez4h ago
En EE. UU., las nuevas políticas federales de acceso abierto exigen que los resultados de investigación financiados con fondos públicos estén disponibles inmediatamente en abierto. SPARC https://sparcopen.org/our-work/guide-for-authors-complying-with-policies/ explica cómo los autores pueden cumplir estos mandatos mediante depósito en #repositorios y #retencióndederechos, evitando en muchos casos #APCs o nuevas “compliance fees
Guide for Authors Complying with U.S. Federal Agency Public Access and Publisher Policies - SPARC

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Show threadpetersuberApr 23

Update. The passage in the #Trump budget criticizing expensive #subscriptions and #APCs (previous post, this thread) triggered a debate in the House of Representatives.

"US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01251-y

"From ‘paper mills’ that sell authorships on fake or low-quality research papers to the costs associated with open-access publishing, US lawmakers are paying increasing attention to widely debated issues in scientific publishing. In a rare show of unity, members of the US House of Representatives from both sides of the political aisle agreed at a hearing that these issues deserve more attention from government — but there was less unity on what the solutions should be."

#OpenAccess #Publishing #ScholComm

US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices

A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little agreement on what reform would entail.

Show threadpetersuberApr 5

Update. Here's the key passage from the new #Trump budget proposing a "Government-Wide Prohibition on Publishing and Subscription Fees." See p. 17.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/budget_fy2027.pdf

"The Budget ends the diversion of research dollars to high priced publishers across the Government. The Budget prohibits the use of Federal funds for expensive subscriptions to academic journals and prohibitively high publishing costs unless required by Federal statute or approved in advance by a Federal agency. Research funded by taxpayers should be publicly accessible; yet many publications charge the Government to both publish and to access the same research study. There are numerous low-cost outlets to make federally-funded research publicly available."

h/t Jim O'Donnell

#APCs #DoubleDipping #OpenAccess #Publishing #ScholComm #Subscriptions

Peter SuberApr 2
#CancerResearchUK will stop paying #APCs for funded researchers. Good. Unfortunately its announcement is marred by false assertions and assumptions about #OpenAccess. news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w... I say more on Mastodon. fediscience.org/@petersuber/...

Why we won’t be funding open a...
Why we won’t be funding open access publishing any more - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News

The open access movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…

Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
petersuberApr 2

#CancerResearchUK will stop paying #APCs for funded researchers.
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/why-we-wont-be-funding-open-access-publishing-any-more/

PS. So far, so good. There are strong reasons to move away from APCs. For a summary, see Recommendation 3 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement in 2022. (Disclosure: I was the lead author.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/#rec-3

Unfortunately the Cancer Research UK announcement is marred by several false assertions and assumptions about #OpenAccess.

* Its narrow decision is to stop funding APCs, but its headline is that it will stop funding OA publishing as such. It leaves the distinct false impression that all OA journals charge APCs.

* Deep in the text it says that OA "hasn't worked. At least not in its current form." That looks like a recognition that not all OA depends on APCs. But it isn't explicit and didn't prevent careless language elsewhere in the statement.

* It never acknowledges that no-APC OA (#DiamondOA) journals exist, let alone that they constitute the majority of OA journals.

* It does acknowledge the existence of no-APC OA through repositories, or #GreenOA. But it falsely suggests that green OA must be embargoed. Just to give one notable set of counter-examples, all the federal OA policies in the US require unembargoed green OA.

#ScholComm

Why we won’t be funding open access publishing any more - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News

The open access movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…

Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Peter SuberMar 31
@johanrooryck.bsky.social just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA. doi.org/10.58079/15yxa #APCs #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar...
Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) 

Johan Rooryck (co-coordinator European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS Research Infrastructure) https://pulse49.com/2026/03/23/diamond-open-access-a-boutique-model-for-scholarly-publishing In Diamond Open Access: A boutique model for scholarly publishing (2026), Ulrich Herb argues that Diamond OA just fills a niche of scholarly publishing, and only serves the needs of particular research communities. He views Diamond OA as a tailor-made solution that is unable to … Continue reading Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) 

the diamond papers
petersuberMar 31

#JohanRooryck (@johanrooryck) just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
https://thd.hypotheses.org/560

#APCs #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) 

Johan Rooryck (co-coordinator European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS Research Infrastructure) https://pulse49.com/2026/03/23/diamond-open-access-a-boutique-model-for-scholarly-publishing In Diamond Open Access: A boutique model for scholarly publishing (2026), Ulrich Herb argues that Diamond OA just fills a niche of scholarly publishing, and only serves the needs of particular research communities. He views Diamond OA as a tailor-made solution that is unable to … Continue reading Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) 

the diamond papers
DOAJMar 30

🌐Christof Schöch, University of Trier, details how the #DOAJ journal #dataset is used to teach #Python programming for the Machine Learning in a Digital Humanities Master's program @christof

#PythonProgramming #APCs #DataClassiication #DataCleaning #MachineLearning
🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/30/teaching-python-programming-with-doajs-journal-dataset/

Show threadpetersuberMar 15
Update. Here's an unrefereed letter to the editor protesting -- with justice -- that "top-ranked scientific publications [could] become the preserve of 'rich' groups." But it relies on the false assumption that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. Hence, it doesn't even mention #DiamondOA solutions to this problem.
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.03659-25
Peter SuberMar 8
Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #Elsevier) with the false claim that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. www.journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/S002... #ScholComm