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#hybridjournals — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hybridjournals, aggregated by home.social.

  1. The world’s leading cancer charity to stop funding open access publishing because of hybrid journals

    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 […]

    #cancer #cancerResearchUk #diamondOa #DORA #embargo #goldOa #greenOa #hybridJournals #openAccess #paywall #peterSuber #publishers #rcuk #research #researchCouncilsUk walledculture.org/the-worlds-l
  2. "A Failure to Communicate: Indicators of Open Access in the User Interface"

    Blog post by Lisa Janicke #Hinchliffe and Kalyn #Nowlan

    "Over the past months, we have conducted a pilot investigation into the signals used on a sample of platforms. Our analysis revealed that this aspect of the user interface is not standardized across the industry nor are symbols and text phrases always used predictably within a given platform."

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    #OpenAccess #HybridJournals