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  1. "We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850."
    statnews.com/2026/06/11/open-a
    (#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

  2. Familienforschung: Die Frau, die tote Leute stalkt

    Gerlinde Kottar erforscht seit 30 Jahren ihre Ahnen, inzwischen kennt sie ihren Stammbaum sieben Generationen zurück. Bei der Suche hat sie nicht nur viel über ihre Vorfahren gelernt, sondern auch über sich selbst.

    spiegel.de/geschichte/familien (€)

    #paywalled #Ahnenforschung #DerSpiegel #GerlindeKottar #HapeKerkeling #Trauma #MyHeritage #GilladJaphet #SchalomKorai #Holocaust #Auswanderung #DNAGenealogie
    @ahnenforschung

  3. A new report on US faculty use of #OER turned up some interesting results.
    primaryresearch.com/AddCart.as

    It's #paywalled & expensive. These excerpts are from the ad.

    "54.55% of faculty under the age of 30 had…used an #OpenAccess #textbook in one of their classes.

    Faculty in #EnvironmentalSciences were the most likely…to have made their lectures available open access online…

    #AfricanAmerican faculty were the most interested in authoring open access educational materials...."

    @academicchatter