[LINK] European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals

Bernard Robertson-Dunn brd at iimetro.com.au
Wed Sep 5 16:30:33 AEST 2018


European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals
Slashdot:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/09/04/2322236/european-science-funders-ban-grantees-from-publishing-in-paywalled-journals

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science Magazine:

Frustrated with the slow transition toward open access (OA) in
scientific publishing, 11 national funding organizations in Europe
turned up the pressure today. As of 2020, the group, which jointly
spends about $8.8 billion on research annually, will require every paper
it funds to be freely available from the moment of publication
<http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/european-science-funders-ban-grantees-publishing-paywalled-journals>.

In a statement <http://scieur.org/coalition-s>, the group said it will
no longer allow the 6- or 12-month delays that many subscription
journals now require before a paper is made OA, and it won't allow
publication in so-called hybrid journals, which charge subscriptions but
also make individual papers OA for an extra fee. The move means grantees
from these 11 funders <http://scieur.org/coalition-s-funders> -- which
include the national funding agencies in the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, and France as well as Italy's National Institute for
Nuclear Physics -- will have to forgo publishing in thousands of
journals, including high-profile ones such as Nature, Science, Cell, and
The Lancet, unless those journals change their business model.

Not everyone is pleased by the decision. A spokesperson for Springer
Nature, which publishes more than 3,000 journals, said the plan
"potentially undermines the whole research publishing system." A
spokesperson for AAAS, Science's publisher, added: "Implementing such a
plan, in our view, would disrupt scholarly communications, be a
disservice to researchers, and impinge academic freedom."

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