Open Scholarship Librarian, advocate of equitable and sustainable OA, scholcomm researcher, excited about science (esp. the life sciences, paleo, & consciousness stuff!)
DeDe Dawson
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"Framing outcomes as “savings” or “cost avoidance” may obscure the fact that these agreements often redirect funds rather than reduce overall expenditure."
It is not open access that is the problem, it is profit-driven publishing models.
Cancer Research UK withdraws funding for open access charges www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers
This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it.
👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/
#OpenAccess #ScholComm
THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …
We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...