#green-oa — Public Fediverse posts

Update. Another article made it through peer review (at Springer) leaving the false impression in many passages that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs and that all or most APCs are to be paid by authors out of pocket. This despite the fact that it acknowledges the existence of no-APC #GreenOA and #DiamondOA, and the existence of APC funds other than the authors' pockets. It just doesn't let these acknowledgements change or qualify sweeping language in other parts of the article.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-024-08921-5

For example, the title and abstract talk about the high costs to authors of OA as such, when they're really about APC-based OA. Table 2 refers to the pros and cons to junior faculty of OA as such, when it's really about the pros and cons of APC-based OA.

It's so easy to say APC-based OA when you mean APC-based OA. It's so wrong to say OA without qualification when you mean APC-based OA.

@ombialik
I completely support the message about preprints.

But please don't perpetuate the myth that all or even most #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. Most do not charge APCs (#DiamondOA). And OA repositories never charge APCs (#GreenOA).

Did you know that the Beilstein-Institut runs a preprint server?
The #BeilsteinArchives is a free, #OpenAccess platform for rapidly publishing preprints and supporting information. The platform is specifically designed to fast-track original research headed for the Beilstein Journals.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yth4x28b
#Beilstein75 #GreenOA

Développement des "repositories fees" chez ACS puis IEEE en réaction au déploiement par les chercheurs.ses de la stratégie de rétention des droits

"Le Consortium Couperin.org refuse ce modèle et ne souhaite pas de coûts additionnels pour permettre à ses
chercheurs de publier. Il souhaite éviter le développement de ce type de frais chez d’autres éditeurs."

👉 https://hal.science/hal-05654837v1

#HAL #embargo #RetentionRightsStrategy #GreenOA

"We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/open-access-journal-fees-nature-wiley-elsevier-nih/
(#paywalled)

There's a lot going on in this confused and confusing article.

* The author and her co-authors were foolish to pay $12,850 for a Nature Medicine APC. They could have published the same article for a lower fee, or no fee, at many other respected journals. They didn't pay for quality. They paid for journal branding or prestige.

* The author says her team paid for the APC "to comply" with the NIH policy. Untrue. Complying with the NIH policy is free of charge. They paid the APC to publish in Nature Medicine.

* The author says that APCs "pose barriers to making NIH-funded research available to the public." Untrue. NIH makes funded research available to the public through #PubMedCentral (#GreenOA) no matter where the author chooses to publish and no matter whether the author chooses to pay an APC.

#FunderPolicies #Funders #NIH #OpenAccess #ScholComm

1.) The University of Nottingham has divested from big deal packages with five major publishers https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2026-5-university-of-nottingham-drops-five-publishing-deals/

2.) The University of Nottingham also has an institutional rights retention policy https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Governance/Documents/Open-Access-Publications-Policy.pdf (PDF)

I shall watch with great interest...

HT @mpe

#RightsRetention #GreenOA

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory. We now have 170. oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Univ... Spread the word. The world could use many more. #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #OAD #ScholComm

University rights-retention OA...

Update. Some colleagues and I have been collecting university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies for the #OpenAccessDirectory (#OAD). We now have 170.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/University_rights-retention_OA_policies

Spread the word. The world could use many more.

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Yale University Library Resear...

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-AuthorRightsPolicy

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

April issue of our Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! #ScholComm
🔸 #OAForward initiative
🔸 CAUL's 100,000th OA article
🔸 National vision for archives in England
🔸 British Academy's report on #greenOA for longform works
🔸 List of #diamondOA initiatives and more
https://mailchi.mp/a26423ef221e/british-library-scholarly-communications-newsletter-april-2026

As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) – allowing anyone to read and share published academic research for free – is great in principle, but in practice has failed in important ways. That’s because traditional academic publishers have subverted the open access model to such an extent that the costs for research institutions of publishing in […]

#CancerResearchUK will stop paying #APCs for funded researchers.
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/why-we-wont-be-funding-open-access-publishing-any-more/

PS. So far, so good. There are strong reasons to move away from APCs. For a summary, see Recommendation 3 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement in 2022. (Disclosure: I was the lead author.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/#rec-3

Unfortunately the Cancer Research UK announcement is marred by several false assertions and assumptions about #OpenAccess.

* Its narrow decision is to stop funding APCs, but its headline is that it will stop funding OA publishing as such. It leaves the distinct false impression that all OA journals charge APCs.

* Deep in the text it says that OA "hasn't worked. At least not in its current form." That looks like a recognition that not all OA depends on APCs. But it isn't explicit and didn't prevent careless language elsewhere in the statement.

* It never acknowledges that no-APC OA (#DiamondOA) journals exist, let alone that they constitute the majority of OA journals.

* It does acknowledge the existence of no-APC OA through repositories, or #GreenOA. But it falsely suggests that green OA must be embargoed. Just to give one notable set of counter-examples, all the federal OA policies in the US require unembargoed green OA.

#ScholComm

Big news from #arXiv:
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678/chief-executive-officer

1. It's becoming an independent #nonprofit organization.
2. It's leaving #CornellU.
3. It's hiring a CEO, with a salary in the range of $300k.

#GreenOA #OpenAccess #Preprints #ScholComm

Watching with interest. "COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance." coar-repositories.org/news-updates... PS: I'm a big fan of #COAR, #COARNotify, #PRC, #Preprints, and taking full advantage of #OpenAccess #Repositories. #GreenOA #OpenPeerReview #ScholComm

COAR Notify and the Launch of ...

Watching with interest.

"COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance."
https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-notify-and-the-launch-of-a-publish-review-curate-alliance/

PS: I'm a big fan of #COAR, #COARNotify, #PRC, #Preprints, and taking full advantage of #OpenAccess #Repositories.

#GreenOA #OpenPeerReview #ScholComm

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Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.... (#paywalled) The article never mentions no-fee OA journals ( #DiamondOA ) or no-fee OA repositories ( #GreenOA ). #ScholComm

Update. Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.0000000000004612
(#paywalled)

General thesis: Paying APCs is a hardship (true) and the prices are going up (true). Therefore, to help medical students publish OA, medical schools should fund their APCs.

The article never mentions no-fee OA journals (#DiamondOA) or no-fee OA repositories (#GreenOA).

#ScholComm

🆔 Last week, the final Halathon of 2025 took place, with the second session held at the INPHYNI laboratory of Université Côte d’Azur. This second session, following the Halathon in November, once again made it possible to work on the quality of researcher profiles in order to improve the visibility of scientific outputs. The agenda therefore included creating accounts and idHALs, merging accounts (subsequently carried out by the CCSD - Centre for Direct Scientific Communication), as well as work on other identifiers, notably ORCid, arXiv, and IdRef.

The Halathons will resume in January! 📅

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🆔 La semaine dernière s'est tenu le dernier Halathon de 2025, avec la deuxième session organisée au laboratoire INPHYNI d'Université Côte d'Azur. Cette seconde intervention après le halathon de novembre a permis à nouveau de travailler sur la qualité des profils chercheurs afin d'améliorer la visibilité des productions scientifiques. Au menu donc : création de compte et d'idHAL, fusions de comptes (réalisées ensuite par le CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), mais aussi travaux sur d'autres identifiants, notamment ORCID, arXiv et IdRef !

Les halathons reprendront en janvier ! 📅

#openscience #greenOA #digitalid #orcid #arxiv #HAL

1/ I'm sympathetic to #NIH-funded authors who want to publish in certain #APC-based #OpenAccess journals and can't find the money to pay the APCs. But it's false to say that they must publish in those journals, in any other APC-based OA journals, or even in OA journals. Shame on _Inside Higher Ed_ for leaving this false impression..
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/05/nih-policy-holding-researchers-hostage

PS: I repeat: Compliance with the NIH OA policy is free of charge. Moreover, compliance is all about depositing in a certain repository, not publishing in a certain journal or kind of journal. The NIH has a #GreenOA policy, not a #GoldOA policy. The same is true for all the other federal agencies with OA policies, not just the NIH. When a journal charges NIH-funded authors an APC to publish, the fee is to publish in that particular journal, not to comply with the NIH policy. Don't be fooled by the widespread misunderstanding that compliance with these policies requires paying any kind of fee. Don't be fooled by journals and publishers that cynically spread this myth themselves or leave it uncorrected. You can help by correcting this falsehood wherever you see it. You can also help by working with hiring, promotion, tenure, and funding committees to care more about the quality of research than the journals in which it is published.

🧵

#APCs #NelsonMemo #NIH #OpenAccess #OAintheUSA #PublicAccess #Repositories

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Supports ici https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/14572/timetable/
#maths #openaccess #openscience #journals #commons #DiamondOA #GOldOA #GreenOA #researchdata

"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair

PS: This article objects to #APCs and "transformative" (#ReadAndPublish) agreements, especially in the humanities. So far, so good. But then it leaves the false impression that all or most #OpenAccess falls into those two categories, which is false and harmful. It never mentions #GreenOA. It mentions #DiamondOA once, for books, and never for articles. It's strong on problems and very weak and even misleading on solutions.

I share the objections to APCs and read-and-publish agreements. I wrote stronger versions of them, extended to all disciplines, for the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

I'm in the humanities and (with the exception of one 1999 book) have made all my books and articles OA. I've never paid an APC and never will. I boycott APC-based publishers both as an author and referee and encourage others to do so.

Scholars in the humanities need accurate info about their OA options, not one-sided criticism of OA as such.

#BOAI20 #Humanities

Update. #SocArXiv (@socarxiv) is dealing with a similar problem by requiring submitters to have #ORCIDs and tightening its focus on the social sciences.
https://socopen.org/2025/11/19/socarxiv-submission-rule-changes/

#GreenOA #Preprints #Repositories

I applaud the new #StockholmDeclaration for the reform of academic publishing.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805

It calls for action on four high-level principles, and makes 34 specific recommendations under those four heads. Here are the four:

"(i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity."

I just signed it and hope you will too. When you sign, you can weigh in separately on each of the 34 specific recommendations.
https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/

#AI #Assessment #DiamondOA #GreenOA #Integrity #Nonprofit #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OpenSource #Publishing #Repositories #RightsRetention #ScholComm

Hier, intervention à la conférence "Collaborations in Algebra, Representation theory and Ethics" organisée à l'UMPA de l' @ENSdeLyon pour parler #openscience et #openaccess avec F. Codet et Filippo A.E. Nuccio devant de jeunes mathématiciens, dans le cadre des débats sur l'éthique en sciences. Super expérience. Merci aux organisateurs !
🔗 https://sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/caremath/home-page
#ethics #maths #APC #academicpublishing #GreenOA #GoldOA #DiamondOA

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#OpenScience #UniCA #Recherche #DiBSO #scienceouverte #greenOA #openaccess

Wussten Sie, dass Sie Ihre Publikation auch nach der Verlagsveröffentlichung frei zugänglich machen können? 🌱

Green Open Access macht’s möglich – TORE hilft Ihnen dabei!

#OAWeek #OpenAccess #GreenOA #TORE

https://www.tub.tuhh.de/blog/2025/10/24/oaweek2025-selbstbestimmt-veroeffentlichen-green-open-access-mit-tore-als-echte-alternative/

Jack Baker was falsely accused of #plagiarism (by his plagiarist!) and now recommends #GreenOA, especially for #preprints, to establish your priority.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02947-3
(#paywalled)

I've been making this point for years and welcome this chance to reiterate. Green OA doesn't invite scooping and plagiarism. It deters them.

On scooping, see my 2012 book at p. 43: "Green OA for preprints [provides] the earliest possible time-stamp to establish the author’s priority." On plagiarism, see p. 24: "Not all plagiarists are smart, but the smart ones will not steal from OA sources indexed in every search engine."
http://bit.ly/oa-book

#OpenAccess #ScholComm

The federal govt shutdown is halting or slowing operations at #OpenAccess #repositories like #PubMedCentral: "Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries until appropriations are enacted."
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

#GreenOA #OAintheUSA #USPol #USPolitics