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EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay

https://www.independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash/a165973061.html

#HackerNews #EUpayments #NoFee #PaymentsService #DigitalEuro #Fintech #Innovation

🙄 This Nature piece awkwardly avoiding the most direct solution to the issue of:

"How can I publish open access when I can’t afford the fees?"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02849-w

Instead, the answer should of course be: don't publish in APC-based journals in the first place, there's plenty of #nofee #DiamondOA journals around!

Don't know where to start at? Go check out @DOAJ 's list of journals that don't charge any APCs at all, or ask colleagues and/or librarians active in your field of research, they will be happy to point you in the right direction.

https://doaj.org/search/journals?source=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22term%22%3A%7B%22bibjson.apc.has_apc%22%3Afalse%7D%7D%2C%7B%22term%22%3A%7B%22bibjson.other_charges.has_other_charges%22%3Afalse%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%2C%22track_total_hits%22%3Atrue%7D

If we don't change it, nothing will change.

Call for expressions of interest in a semi-staged G&S! The annual G&S weekend in St Dizant du Gua (France), postponed in 2020 for Reasons, wasn't replanned - yet. It could still happen this year if enough singers and at least one accompanist want to do it. #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #ruralfrance #singers #NoFee