John Carlos Baez4d ago

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@11011110/116702037049926326

The rebellions continue!

The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is peer reviewed and 'diamond open access'. That means FREE to publish in and FREE to read!

And they did this with the help of Open Library for Humanities: an organization that coordinates 35 journals like this, and develops software to make it easy for you to set up your own.

The executive director, Caroline Edwards, says:

“It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At Open Library for Humanities we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature."

Show threadCanageek4d ago
@johncarlosbaez I am really worried about how these journals will be archived in a hundred years. They don't have an income stream to pay for hosting, and libraries don't have a shelf of copies bound into big volumes anymore
Show threadJohn Carlos Baez3d ago

@Canageek - That's an important issue. I checked it out, and Open Library for the Humanities says

"Journal content is archived around the world to ensure long-term availability. To secure permanency of all publications, OLH journals utilise CLOCKSS , and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration. Where relevant, we automatically archive journal content with subject specific archives."

CLOCKSS:
https://clockss.org/about/how-clockss-works/

LOCKSS:
https://www.lockss.org/use-lockss/how-lockss-works

Show threadCanageek
@johncarlosbaez Oh good, that seems to be a pretty good system in a technical level, so as long as they have solid funding it should be good
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