Iain MacLeanJul 22, 2023
Björn Brembs

What do these developments have in common?
- Libraries are running institutional #repositories
- Scholarly organizations are hosting #mastodon instances
- the EU council decides to foster #openscience infrastructures
- The EU launches #CoARA to deprecate #bibliometrics and journal brand

They are all steps towards replacing academic journals
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230206
with interoperable, not-for-profit infrastructures based on #foss and #openstandards
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230207

Jul 19, 2023 at 6:58pmBuffer
Show threadronix 🏺Jul 24, 2023
@brembs Question is, is this good or bad? I am a #foss fan, but also know small academic publishers that are really unhappy about this development.
Show threadBjörn BrembsJul 24, 2023

@ronix

Small academic publishers should be happy as this development, if concluded, spells the end of the large corporations.

Show threadronix 🏺Jul 24, 2023
@brembs Unfortunately, they are not. It deprives them of their income, and this is an issue I have been hearing for the last five years. They also say, yes, this is good against the large, evil publishers that really hide everything behind their paywalls, but it is not good for us, because we need the little money academic publishing generates.
Show threadBjörn BrembsJul 24, 2023

@ronix

Well, if they think the plan is to stop scholarly publishing, then they may indeed not be in the right business 🤣

Seriously, though, the plans are more than clear and explicit in this regard. Not sure one can be any more unambiguous? Maybe they have missed the 16 times we have mentioned the word "market"? 😇