Em Nunn
Open letter from US libraries in support of #openaccess but against transitional agreements because of the baked in issues of global inequity - interesting to see if this will get any take up here (transitional agreement central) https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2023-03-03/iplc-letter-office-science-technology-policy
IPLC Letter to the Office of Science & Technology Policy

The following letter was sent to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy on behalf of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

Harvard Library
Mar 9, 2023 at 2:28pmWeb
Show threadRoss MounceMar 9, 2023

@ebnunn whether the Springer Nature TA gets renewed or not might be the acid test / indicator?

absolutely agree that the UK is one of few(!) TA central countries :(

Show threadRoss MounceMar 9, 2023

@ebnunn UK rather atypical in the context of other top-20 high volume, STM research producing nations. Fairly obvious to me that Germany, UK & Netherlands alone cannot 'transform' journals. Unless those journals seek to exclude middle income country authors/institutions?!?! [not a suggestion fwiw]

(image from my recent talk slides https://zenodo.org/record/7704554#.ZAnvwXbP1Pb )

Thoughts on the many different paths to achieving open access

An invited keynote talk given for the Liverpool Open Research Week 2023 https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/open-research-week-2023/ Talk abstract:  Ross will reflect on how progress towards providing open access to all academic research is going; the good, the bad, and the ugly.  The good is: we're starting to realise that a lot of the problem boils down to copyright issues. The emergence and normalisation of rights retention is undoubtedly healthy. The bad news is: there are significant problems in the way that money is being spent to enable open access e.g. "transformative agreements" (sic). Transformative for whom? The ugly: Journal Impact Factor™ is statistically illiterate, negotiable, and irreproducible, but some researchers are still making decisions using it. The real question now is not can we get universal open access to research, but how.

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Show threadEm NunnMar 9, 2023
@rmounce I'll have a look at your slides, thank you!
Show threadMarc Robinson-RechaviMar 9, 2023
@rmounce Thanks for sharing the slides, very useful!