If universities need to cut costs, here’s an easy solution: STOP throwing tax money at the #BigPub cartels.
Once a sufficiently large number of scholars no longer have access to the cartels’ journals, the incentives for publishing in them will also go away, and people will eventually realize that the cartels contribute NOTHING to research.
With “AI deals,” the added value is now below zero.
https://mastodon.social/@leibnizopenscience/114319451953889493
But everyone already has access, subscription or not, for pretty much a decade already, e.g.:
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/12/so-your-institute-went-cold-turkey-on-publisher-x-what-now/
That's why canceling is painless.
Yes, publishing must be disincentivozed, e.g. by not paying APCs, either. Without any money, journals will cease to exist, problem solved:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230206
The EU Council agrees:
And develops ORE as the journal replacement:
Michael Piotrowski
Björn Brembs