Below is the list of articles and initiatives:

• Guardian article on OA too high by a well-known publisher:’Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical' fees 
• The editor-in-chief of another well-known editor was fired because she/he did not accept a high number of hybrid OA articles: Wiley Removes Goodin as Editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy (comment by Sally Rumsey on Twitter in this regard)
• Article on ROARS: Scienza aperta: community over commercialization
• Two events recordings:
  • Academic Journals are Broken
  • Let’s Build a Better Scientific Record
• Report of Science Europe Open Science Conference
• The new version of the June Council Conclusions on Publications

News from OA Italia Mailinglist

When: May 23, 2023

Time: 17:00 CET

Venue: online (free)

"At its launch in 2018, cOAlition S announced that its members would, for a “transition period,” fund open access fees for journals covered by “transformative” agreements. That move helped to establish read-and-publish deals as the leading OA business model, despite criticism that the agreements prop up the author-pays APC system. Despite this opposition, the same author-pays business model has also gained traction to fund the publication of OA books (through BPCs).

As cOAlition S recently communicated, the transition period is ending; beginning in 2025, funders adhering to Plan S will no longer support the agreements. Moreover, a growing chorus of stakeholders, including the Ivy Plus librarians in the US and a coalition of UK-based researchers, are calling for an alternative, collective funding model for OA. At the same time, collective funding experiments and conditional open models (such as Subscribe to Open)—in which neither authors nor readers pay—are reporting promising results around the globe.

This webinar features perspectives on the emerging landscape of collective and conditional open models from publishers. It will be followed this year by a second webinar focusing on funders' perspective".

Registration here.

Past OASPA webinars:

• Rights Retention for Books and Book Chapters
• Data sharing: what do we know and where can we go?
• Reviewing the Data on Knowledge Creation: Access, Governance and Equity
• Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Research Integrity and Open Scholarship
• Shadow Libraries and Access to Knowledge: Origins, Policies, Legality, and Accessibility

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