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Happy Digital Independence Day!
Take the opportunity to switch from US based software from Silicon Valley to Delta Chat: a secure decentralised open source messenger from Europe.
Inspired by Germany's #DiDay ("digital independence day") and the Danish #DanmarkSkifter, the Netherlands now has #DoeiDag ("bye day"), every first Sunday of the month. 🔥🇳🇱
DoeiDag is a montly day to say goodbye to big tech and to try open alternatives. It's organized by the good folks of @doeidag
More info: https://doeidag.nl
PeerJ is how one would create journals if they had to be invented today. It's run by Pete Binfield, the first editor of PLoS One. Pete is beyond any criticism.
I have been editor for PeerJ from its inception. Have published there and left when they were bought by T&F.
So only downside is that it is now owned by one of the big corporations- which is a deal breaker for many.
I love your Brittish understatement 😆
Yes, exactly!
Not that one couldn't have seen this coming already 15 years ago, e.g.:
http://blogarchive.brembs.net/comment-n879.html
and it only got more obvious since:
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/04/how-gold-open-access-may-make-things-worse/
Time we started acting on what we knew would come so many years ago...
"Nearly 25 years on from the original attempt to codify [#openaccess] it hasn’t achieved what it set out to do."
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/why-we-wont-be-funding-open-access-publishing-any-more/
Interesting take by Cancer Research UK:
"We need efficient scholarly communications to spread scientific ideas via a fair economic model. We currently don’t have that. The #openaccess movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…"
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/why-we-wont-be-funding-open-access-publishing-any-more/
"Ceasing to fund open access in the way we currently do will save us £5.2m of donors’ money over the next three years."
This realization may exactly be one of the reaosns why @dfg_public is supporting ORE?
https://www.dfg.de/en/basics-topics/digital-topics/open-access/ore
They're not wrong:
"Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has announced it will cease funding #openaccess (#OA) publishing costs, arguing that the current model is failing to deliver a fair and efficient system for disseminating research."
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/cancer-research-uk-to-stop-funding-open-access-publishing/
I wonder if the ORE announcement may have anything to do with that decision?
Are there any similar efforts going on in the UK?
Leander Lindahl 🇪🇺
Gina
