Paola Galimberti, Oltre le APC: cambiare il sistema
L’analisi di Samuel Moore e il position paper delle università olandesi convergono su una stessa diagnosi: l’attuale sistema di editoria scientifica, compreso il modello #openaccess basato su #APC, genera distorsioni e incentivi sbagliati. Per Moore, eliminare i finanziamenti alle APC non risolve il problema, ma rischia di spostarne semplicemente i costi. Il documento olandese mostra che la radice della crisi risiede nell’economia del prestigio e nei sistemi di valutazione della ricerca. La soluzione passa quindi da infrastrutture aperte e non commerciali, da nuovi criteri di valutazione e da una responsabilità condivisa tra ricercatori, istituzioni ed enti finanziatori. Solo una trasformazione culturale e sistemica può produrre un cambiamento duraturo.
Sospettiamo che chi decide sappia benissimo che questo sistema drena denaro pubblico, inflaziona le pubblicazioni e produce spazzatura, ma che non sia interessato a cambiarlo, per due motivi:
M1126 "Striker"
A mix of a Striker from a Helluva Boss and an M1126 Stryker APC. There are two options available - the original and the military.
No, this is not a transformer, or a technomorph, to whom it will seem for the first time...
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Presentation delivered at the OPERAS & SciROS Conference, Warsaw, 20 May 2026. Article processing charges (APCs) are increasingly treated as indicators of journal quality, prestige, and visibility. This presentation discusses the methodological and political implications of a recent valuation framework (Halevi et al. 2024), now operational as the SCImago Journal Value tool, which estimates a journal's financial value by combining a citation-based indicator with publication volume. The talk identifies three methodological issues — model selection without out-of-sample validation, the pooling of journals with different business and mission models, and the conceptual ambiguity of treating listed APCs as effective prices — and illustrates them empirically with the case of Milan University Press, a diamond open access publisher whose catalogue is largely invisible to the metric and whose visible portion is assigned a substantial monetary value that corresponds to no actual transaction. The presentation argues that price-based indicators cannot adequately capture the value of non-commercial publishing infrastructures and warns against their use in the governance of Open Science. Conference URL: https://operasandsciros.sciencesconf.org
Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers has withdrawn from the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial primaries ahead of the 2027 governorship election in the state.
https://dmarketforces.com/fubara-withdraws-from-rivers-apc-governorship-primaries/
I compiled a list of legitimate #diamond #openaccess #journals for #migration #research @migration #OA #APC
CONCERNED BENDE YOUTH POLITICAL FORUM ADDRESSES BEN KALU
Concerned Bende Youth Political Forum to Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu: 'Show character and walk the talk, rightly and honourably.' 'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.' — Aristotle. We, the members of the above-mentioned group, a youth-powered movement in Bende LGA of Abia State, are sadly concerned about the recent character summersault and inconsistencies being exhibited in the current political cycle by Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, supposed leader and elder […]
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