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petersuber @[email protected] · 2026-06-12 · 14:27 UTC

"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/
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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

#paywalled #pubmedcentral #greenoa #funderpolicies #funders #nih

Genealogie-News @[email protected] · 2025-09-21 · 15:19 UTC

Sie wollen etwas über ihre Ahnen wissen? Anja Dörries aus Belm weiß, wie das geht

#Belm. Durch ihre Ahnenforschung konnte Anja Dörries den Namen ihres Großvaters herausfinden. Wie geht die Belmerin bei ihrer Suche vor?

https://www.noz.de/lokales/belm/artikel/anja-doerries-aus-belm-betreibt-seit-einem-jahr-ahnenforschung-49225196 (€)

#paywalled #Ahnenforschung #NeueOsnabrückerZeitung #NOZ #AnjaDörries #NSVerbrechen #Fahndung #USA #Polen #Osnabrück #DNAGenealogie #Ancestry #Rulle #MatriculaOnline #Spurensuche #BadRothenfeldeStrang #KurtSroka #Sroka

#belm #paywalled #ahnenforschung #neueosnabruckerzeitung #noz #anjadorries

petersuber @[email protected] · 2025-03-14 · 17:46 UTC

Update. "The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge. Can #librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from #DOGE.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
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"Lynda Kellam, a social scientist and data librarian,…who’s served in leadership positions at two Ivy League universities, described the vulnerable data as “irreplaceable.”…Kellam told me that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during Trump’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late January, when the #CDC began removing information from its website. Kellam was encouraged, but worried about a lack of coördination. What if the backups languished on private hard drives? What if archivists duplicated one another’s work? She created a Google Doc to centralize information about preëxisting initiatives—an archive of archives, with detailed instructions on how to contribute to each…Kellam met with the heads of other data-librarian organizations, and together they founded the #DataRescueProject."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics