Article about Sci-Hub and ahat ought to be done i "Palladium - governance futurism" on Sept 24, 2021 By Jason Parry. Supports David Wiley's "thought experiment" on using Eminent Domain (expropriation).
(Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2021) Alors que la production des connaissances scientifiques relève pour l'essentiel de la dépense publique, les revenus de leur publication sont captés par des mastodontes de l'édition, qui imposent leurs priorités et leurs tarifs. Cette position dominante de quelques acteurs privés entrave la diffusion du savoir et s'accompagne de nombreux effets délétères.
EFF June 2021: Major publishers want to censor research-sharing resource Sci-Hub from the internet, but archivists quickly respond to make that impossible. More than half of academic publishing is controlled by major publishers using burdensome paywalls. One project in particular, Sci-Hub, has threatened to break down this barrier by sharing articles without restriction. As a result,
China is working on a master plan for the internationalisation of its domestic journals and plans to pursue an open science strategy at a national level
2019 How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls. Featuring Elaine Westworth, Aileen Fyfe, Theodora Bloom et al
"What’s standing in the way of a full-on revolution? The culture of science. "
"But there’s a big thing getting in the way of a revolution: prestige-obsessed scientists who continue to publish in closed-access journals. They’re like the road workers who keep paying fees to build infrastructure they can’t freely access. Until that changes, the walls will remain firmly intact."
The latest strategy for addressing the serials crisis that has fueled the crisis in scholarly publishing across the disciplines is the establishment of transformative open access agreements.
March 16, 2021
The agreement is the largest of its kind in North America to date, bringing together UC, which generates nearly 10 percent of all U.S. research output, and Elsevier, which disseminates about 17 percent of journal articles produced by UC faculty. The deal will double the number of articles made available through UC’s transformative open access agreements.
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