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Today is the 24th birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

Best known for catalyzing the #OpenAccess movement in 2002, the BOAI has been continuously active and formed a nonprofit organization just last year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-transitioning-to-organization-to-support-the-development-of-equitable-open-access/

See the org's progress report on its first year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-celebrates-anniversary-and-reflects-on-progress-of-first-year-as-an-organization/

The latest version of the BOAI recommendations is its 20th anniversary statement.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

In contrast to the earlier BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focuses on a small number of top priorities:

1. Adopting #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my contributions to #BOAI (2002), #BOAI10 (2012), and #BOAI20 (2022), and honored to serve on the org steering committee.

Happy #ValentinesDay to all who work for #OpenAccess worldwide.

"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

Thank you Harry Warner for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing in Journal of Cell Science via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with University of Groningen @Bibliothecaris

Read Harry’s paper: https://bit.ly/4i3mInv

Is your institution participating? https://bit.ly/3O7BxGi

Thank you Adam Downie for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing in Biology Open via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with The University of Queensland. Read Adam’s paper: https://bit.ly/4hA9vm1

See if your institution is participating too: https://bit.ly/3O7BxGi

Thank you Adam Maclean for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in Development via our Read & Publish agreement with The University of Queensland.

See all institutions: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OA #OpenAccess #ReadAndPublish #Publishing #Biology #Research #Academia

We are delighted to announce the renewal of our #ReadAndPublish agreement with JULAC which ensures that corresponding authors at participating institutions in #HongKong can publish an uncapped number of research articles #OpenAccess in our journals https://biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/julac-announcement-2

Over 1,000 institutions in 55 countries are participating in our Read & Publish Open Access initiative.

Find out if your institution is included: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OpenAccess #OA #ReadAndPublish #Publishing #Academia #Science #Communication

Thank you Danilo Giacometti for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in Journal of Experimental Biology via our Read & Publish agreement with Brock University.

See all participating institutions: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OpenAccess #OA #ReadAndPublish #Research #Publishing #JEB #Academia

Unclear on the concept

This editorial in a #Wiley journal praises Wiley for promoting equitable #OpenAccess publishing in #LatinAmerica through #ReadAndPublish agreements that discount #APCs in proportion to national GDP.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71964

PS: To me, equitable OA moves 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 from both APCs and read-and-publish agreements. For the arguments, see the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, especially recommendations 3 and 4.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20 #DEI #Publishing #ScholComm

Thank you Lily Kelleher for sharing your experience of publishing in our journal
Biology Open.

Find out if your institution has an Open Access publishing agreement with us:

https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OpenAccess #OA #Publishing #Biology #Research #ReadAndPublish

Thank you Christian Schröter for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in Journal of Cell Science via our Read & Publish agreement with University of Leiden.

Read Christian’s paper: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/8/jcs263794/367860/Med12-cooperates-with-multiple-differentiation

See if your institution is also participating: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OpenAccess #OA #ReadAndPublish #Publishing #Academia #Writing #Science #Communication

The _Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing_ is converting from #hybrid to #APC-based #OpenAccess. One of its motives to escape the #DoubleDipping of the hybrid model. "Although this hybrid approach was well-intentioned, it created a paradoxical situation where institutions pay [and publishers receive] both subscription fees and publication charges."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10877-025-01342-7

PS: Glad to see it acknowledge the double dipping. Too many hybrid journals don't do that. Next step, escape the inequity and author-side barriers of the APC model.

#APCs #GoldOA #ReadAndPublish #ScholComm #SpringerNature

"For Fairer Open Access Deals, Base Article Eligibility on Submission Date" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/fairer-oa-deals-article-eligibility-submission-date
"Under read-and-publish agreements, articles aren’t deemed eligible for open access publication until they are accepted by the publisher, leaving authors frustrated, libraries stuck, and everyone needlessly confused. There’s a better way."
#OpenAccess #ReadandPublish #Agreements

Thanks Luis R. Martinez for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in @DMM_Journal via our Read & Publish agreement with University of Florida.

Is your institution participating? https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OpenAccess #OA #Academia #Academic #Publishing #ReadAndPublish

We have over 1,000 institutions in 54 countries participating in our Read & Publish Open Access initiative.

Check if your institution is participating:

https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#ReadAndPublish #Publishing #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #OA #Academia #Science #STEM #Biology

The Royal Society of Chemistry (#RSC) just issued a vague and puzzling statement about its plans.
https://www.rsc.org/news/our-evolving-approach-to-open-access

It once planned to convert all its journals to #OpenAccess by 2028. By which it apparently meant #APC-based OA. But after talking with customers in different parts of the world, it learned that some regions "are not yet ready for fully OA." By which it means APC-based OA. "The resounding message we heard over and over is that one size cannot fit all." By which it means that not all can pay APCs.

"It became clear that we needed to adapt our vision for openness to account for a landscape that is increasing in complexity and no longer coalescing around a single direction for open research." As if the global landscape had ever coalesced around support for APCs.

But RSC is still committed to some kind of transition to OA. "We are now shaping our future OA approach to support authors in ways that suit them best in a local context."

If it plans to support no-APC forms of OA, it carefully avoids saying so. It never mentions #GreenOA and never endorses #DiamondOA. (It mentions one diamond OA initiative in Africa, but it's not an RSC initiative.)

I'm guessing that it plans to rely on locally customized #ReadAndPublish agreements. (I've argued that all such agreements use APCs in disguise.) But if so, why not say so? If it has other models in mind for regions "not ready" for APC-based OA, why not say what they are?

#APCs #South #ScholComm

Are you eligible for fee-free Open Access publishing? Does your institution have a Read & Publish agreement with us? Check if your institution is one of over 1,000 participating.

https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#OpenAccess #ReadAndPublish #Publishing #Academia #Research

Thank you Maarten Zwart for sharing your experience of publishing in @J_Exp_Biol via our Read & Publish agreement with University of St Andrews.

Read & Publish participating institutions: https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/participating-institutions/

#ReadAndPublish #OpenAccess #OA #Publishing #Academia #Paper #AcademicPublishing #Biology #Research #University

[Veille] "1000-up for The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish initiative"
(21 February 2025) => https://www.researchinformation.info/news/1000-up-for-the-company-of-biologists-read-publish-initiative/
#openaccess #transformativeagreements #ReadandPublish #openscience #biology

Peter Barr explains why three UK #universities recently cancelled their #Elsevier #ReadAndPublish agreements and why these deals are unsustainable.
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365

PS: My own objections to these deals overlap significantly with Barr's. See the #BOAI20 Recommendation 4 ("Move away from read-and-publish agreements").
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#Cancellations #OpenAccess #ScholComm

#Academia
@academicchatter

Today is the 23d birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

BOAI is still active and issued its 20th anniversary recommendations in 2022.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

Unlike previous BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focused on just a small number of top priorities:

1. Adopting #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my association with the #BOAI, #BOAI10, and #BOAI20.

Happy #ValentinesDay to all who are working for #OpenAccess worldwide.

February is Library Lover's Month and we would like to thank all librarians for the important role they play within the biology community. https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/
#LibraryLoversMonth #HappyLibraryLoversMonth #biology #research #ReadAndPublish #OpenAcess

New study: "Current levels of implementation of #transformative agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to full #OpenAccess."
https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00348

Reminder from the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, section 4.6: "Paying #APCs at hybrid journals [through these agreements] pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full #OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI20 #ReadAndPublish #ScholComm

New study: "Our analysis demonstrates that research institutions seem to be ‘trapped’ in #transformative agreements [aka #ReadAndPublish agreements]. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully #OpenAccess world, academia is stuck in the #hybrid system."
https://www.cwts.nl/seminars/announcements?article=n-t2s284&title=trapped-in-transformative-agreements-a-multifaceted-analysis-of-1000-contracts

Reminder from the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, section 4.6: "Journals covered by [transformative or read-and-publish] agreements are…hybrid journals…Paying #APCs at hybrid journals [through these agreements] pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full #OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI20 #ScholComm

The U of Surrey just cancelled its #ReadAndPublish agreement with #Elsevier, less than one month after the U of Sheffield did the same.
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2025-1-uk-university-drops-elsevier-deal/

#Academia #Journals #OpenAccess #ScholComm
@academicchatter

Delighted to announce the renewal of our #ReadAndPublish #OpenAccess agreement with the Bibsam Consortium. Authors at participating institutions in Sweden can continue to publish an uncapped number of research articles immediately #OA. https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/bibsam-consortium/

Thanks to Luis Covarrubias for sharing his experience of fee-free #OpenAccess publishing in @BiologyOpen via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Read Luis's paper in Biology Open: https://bit.ly/4eQua32

Find out if your institution is participating: https://bit.ly/4123y9g

New study: "Research institutions seem to be 'trapped' in #TransformativeAgreements. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully #OpenAccess world, academia is stuck in the #hybrid system."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224

PS: This confirms the #BOAI20 diagnosis (March 2022): "Paying #APCs at hybrid journals pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#ReadAndPublish

Today is the 22d birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

BOAI is still active and issued its 20th anniversary recommendations in 2022.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

They focus on:
1. Moving to #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my association with both #BOAI and #BOAI20.

Happy #Valentine's Day to all who are working for #OpenAccess worldwide.

The president for research at #SpringerNature offers a #publisher-based defense of transformative agreements (aka #ReadAndPublish agreements) without confronting any of the serious objections to them.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/transformative-agreements-are-now-key-open-access

For some of the serious objections to them, see e.g. the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, esp Recommendation 4 ("move away from read-and-publish agreements"). Disclosure: I helped write these objections.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

Update. Note that a year ago this month the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations came to the same conclusions on #APCs and #ReadAndPublish agreements. (See recommendations 3 & 4.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

Update. The statement is now on the #HarvardLibrary website.
https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2023-03-03/iplc-letter-office-science-technology-policy

Another excerpt: "We want to highlight the dangers of allowing the interests of commercial #publishers to dictate the paths available to [#OpenAccess]…We refer here to the…#APC (article processing charge)…and/or institutional #ReadAndPublish agreements where libraries pay bulk APCs on behalf of their scholars and unlock institutional access to read pay-walled content."

Castro-Obregón &co report that nucleophagy contributes to genome stability through degradation of type II topoisomerases A and B and nucleolar components. Transfer from @ReviewCommons. The article is #openaccess thanks to @Co_Biologists' #Readandpublish agreement with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México:
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/1/jcs260563/286548/Nucleophagy-contributes-to-genome-stability
#cellbiology #research #sciencemastodon #science #autophagy #nucleophagy #DNAdamage

My University of Melbourne library blog post on our 2023 #OpenAccess publishing agreements is now live. It aims to not just highlight our new and continuing agreements, most of which are #ReadAndPublish agreements negotiated by #CAUL, but to contextualise these alongside other pathways to open access, including open access journals (many of which don't charge APCs), Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and our institutional repository.

https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/researcher-library/2023/01/16/2023-open-access-publishing-agreements/

#UniMelb #ScholarlyCommunications

Saha, Pearce &co show that WNK1 is a chloride-stimulated scaffold that regulates mTORC2 activity and ion transport. #openaccess thanks to @Co_Biologists' #Readandpublish agreement with University of California: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/135/23/jcs260313/285827/WNK1-is-a-chloride-stimulated-scaffold-that
#cellbiology #science #sciencemastodon #openscience #research #mTOR

Check out our latest poster on the 'Diversity of mitophagy pathways at a glance' by Ian Ganley
and Anne Simonsen. The article is #openaccess thanks to @Co_Biologists #Readandpublish agreement with JISC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/135/23/jcs259748/285919/Diversity-of-mitophagy-pathways-at-a-glance
#cellbiology #research #openscience #autophagy #mitophagy