The EU is ready to agree that immediate open access to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, without authors having to pay fees, and that the bloc should support non-profit scholarly publishing models.
At long fucking last.
EU making itself less reliant on Russians once again. That’s great news.
Aaron Swartz would be happy to know that. The fight is not over yet, we still need China and the US to pass similar laws.
Realistically this is the only way this is going to happen. It needs a big player in the research funding world to insist, in order to break up the cartel of scientific publishing.
Long overdue.
This should help a great deal with European tech and R&D
The US did the same but it’s not going to be enforced until 2025.
This would be a game changer, holy, I cannot put into words how much I want it to be true
Rare EU W.
While I like open access for humans I really don’t want AI training models using my research to then spit out papers that read exactly like mine!
When that’s done, they need to take the next steps:
– All generation of knowledge that has been publicly funded must have an open license,
– Publicly funded knowledge can’t be patented.
It makes no sense to use taxes to fund research that the public can’t use afterwards, because it’s locked away with patents and as proprietary IP. The public payed for it, so they must be able to use it.
That will hurt Elsevier badly, right!
That’s wonderful. Having said that can someone enlighten me where then the papers would be published if not in for-profit journals and without author fees? What’s left? And I’m not talking about preprint archives, which are great but we are judged by papers published in journals and not as preprints.
The Netherlands are going to be happy about this
Fuck these parasitic publishers. Getting content for free, letting authors pay for their work, and then charging readers to read the shit.
I am so thankful that I did my Master’s degree before Sci-Hub stopped being updated. Lots of cool info I got on my subject, and it was so easy to just “browse” papers all the way back through their Bibliography section.
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The EU is ready to agree that immediate open access to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, without authors having to pay fees, and that the bloc should support non-profit scholarly publishing models.
At long fucking last.
EU making itself less reliant on Russians once again. That’s great news.
Aaron Swartz would be happy to know that. The fight is not over yet, we still need China and the US to pass similar laws.
Realistically this is the only way this is going to happen. It needs a big player in the research funding world to insist, in order to break up the cartel of scientific publishing.
Long overdue.
This should help a great deal with European tech and R&D
The US did the same but it’s not going to be enforced until 2025.
This would be a game changer, holy, I cannot put into words how much I want it to be true
Rare EU W.
While I like open access for humans I really don’t want AI training models using my research to then spit out papers that read exactly like mine!
When that’s done, they need to take the next steps:
– All generation of knowledge that has been publicly funded must have an open license,
– Publicly funded knowledge can’t be patented.
It makes no sense to use taxes to fund research that the public can’t use afterwards, because it’s locked away with patents and as proprietary IP. The public payed for it, so they must be able to use it.
That will hurt Elsevier badly, right!
That’s wonderful. Having said that can someone enlighten me where then the papers would be published if not in for-profit journals and without author fees? What’s left? And I’m not talking about preprint archives, which are great but we are judged by papers published in journals and not as preprints.
The Netherlands are going to be happy about this
Fuck these parasitic publishers. Getting content for free, letting authors pay for their work, and then charging readers to read the shit.
I am so thankful that I did my Master’s degree before Sci-Hub stopped being updated. Lots of cool info I got on my subject, and it was so easy to just “browse” papers all the way back through their Bibliography section.
Alright.