More and more experts agree on the general pillars for reforming the scholarly publication system and some potential solutions already exist. Here I argue that the soon to be re-launched ORE covers the most important of these pillars and hence deserves broad scholarly support:

After decades of debating the “scientific publishing crisis”, the time has come to decide. https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/02/after-decades-of-debating-the-scientific-publishing-crisis-the-time-as-come-to-decide/

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After decades of debating the “scientific publishing crisis”, the time as come to decide.

This is an English translation of my original German contribution to the Merkur Blog in response to the contributions by Gehring and Tautz. “Scientific publishing” may sound like a minor rung in the ivory tower. It is not. The system […] <a class="more-link" href="https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/02/after-decades-of-debating-the-scientific-publishing-crisis-the-time-as-come-to-decide/">↓ Read the rest of this entry...</a>

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@brembs very well written, it’s past time for action. I firmly believe there is a Monty Python sketch for everything: “we need to stop just talking and do something!” https://youtu.be/YawagQ6lLrA?si=tZSlGAOJT_Yt1nWb
Life Of Brian PFJ meeting to take action

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Thanks!

I experienced much of these last 20 years of my involvement as an endless rerun of this scene 🤣

I now added the link to the video to the post.