petersuber<p>Peter Barr explains why three UK <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> recently cancelled their <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ReadAndPublish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReadAndPublish</span></a> agreements and why these deals are unsustainable.<br><a href="https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20250211161002365" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">universityworldnews.com/post.p</span><span class="invisible">hp?story=20250211161002365</span></a></p><p>PS: My own objections to these deals overlap significantly with Barr's. See the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a> Recommendation 4 ("Move away from read-and-publish agreements").<br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cancellations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cancellations</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholComm</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>
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petersuber<p>Update. The <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI</span></a> is transitioning into an organization, BOAI Org. </p><p>"The new organization will foster the development of equitable <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> and support the adoption of policies, practices and sustainability models that make scholarly communications free to read and publish. The BOAI Org will provide support and guidance to accelerate the implementation of our 20th Anniversary Recommendations which address the systemic problems that obstruct progress towards the realization of our original vision that 'an old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good.'"</p><p>Read today's announcement for more on the org's plans and priorities.<br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-transitioning-to-organization-to-support-the-development-of-equitable-open-access/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/news/boai-transitioning-to-organization-to-support-the-development-of-equitable-open-access/</span></a></p><p>(Disclosure: I'm on the steering committee.)</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI_Org" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI_Org</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholComm</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Today is the 23d birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.<br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/read/</span></a></p><p>BOAI is still active and issued its 20th anniversary recommendations in 2022. <br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a></p><p>Unlike previous BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focused on just a small number of top priorities:</p><p>1. Adopting <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenInfrastructure</span></a><br>2. Reforming <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ResearchAssessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchAssessment</span></a> <br>3. Moving away from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APCs</span></a><br>4. Moving away from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ReadAndPublish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReadAndPublish</span></a> agreements. </p><p>I'm proud of my association with the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI10</span></a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a>.</p><p>Happy <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ValentinesDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ValentinesDay</span></a> to all who are working for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> worldwide.</p>
petersuber<p>New study: "Current levels of implementation of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/transformative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transformative</span></a> agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to full <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a>."<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00348" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00348</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>Reminder from the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, section 4.6: "Paying <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APCs</span></a> at hybrid journals [through these agreements] pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a> that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements." <br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ReadAndPublish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReadAndPublish</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholComm</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>New study: "Our analysis demonstrates that research institutions seem to be ‘trapped’ in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/transformative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transformative</span></a> agreements [aka <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ReadAndPublish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReadAndPublish</span></a> agreements]. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> world, academia is stuck in the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/hybrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hybrid</span></a> system."<br><a href="https://www.cwts.nl/seminars/announcements?article=n-t2s284&title=trapped-in-transformative-agreements-a-multifaceted-analysis-of-1000-contracts" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cwts.nl/seminars/announcements</span><span class="invisible">?article=n-t2s284&title=trapped-in-transformative-agreements-a-multifaceted-analysis-of-1000-contracts</span></a></p><p>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 <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APCs</span></a> at hybrid journals [through these agreements] pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a> that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements." <br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholComm</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Taking this a bit further:</p><p>From the U of Surrey: "The university continuously reviews all it commercial subscriptions for value for money, and…concluded that the Jisc-negotiated ‘Read and Publish’ deal with Elsevier was 'not sustainable in the current financial climate'."<br><a href="https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2025-1-uk-university-drops-elsevier-deal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchprofessionalnews.com/r</span><span class="invisible">r-news-uk-universities-2025-1-uk-university-drops-elsevier-deal/</span></a> </p><p>From the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, section 4.3: Read-and-publish agreements "are unsustainable, by paying more than necessary and putting short-term growth ahead of long-term growth."<br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update with a comment.</p><p>Don't throw in the towel. First, reform research <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/assessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assessment</span></a> to move away from journal impact factors (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JIFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JIFs</span></a>) and to pay more attention to the quality of research than the number of publications or where they published. Second, move away from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APCs</span></a>. To make research <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a>, favor no-APC <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenOA</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DiamondOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiamondOA</span></a> over APC-based varieties. </p><p>BTW, the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement makes both these recommendations. (Disclosure: I was a co-author.)<br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>New study: "Research institutions seem to be 'trapped' in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TransformativeAgreements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransformativeAgreements</span></a>. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> world, academia is stuck in the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/hybrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hybrid</span></a> system."<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>PS: This confirms the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a> diagnosis (March 2022): "Paying <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APCs</span></a> 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."<br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ReadAndPublish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReadAndPublish</span></a></p>
petersuber<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@tamiel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tamiel</span></a></span> <br>Absolutely. That's why the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement doesn't call them "transformative". For its full argument against them, see Recommendation 4. (Disclosure: I was a co-author.)<br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>I like the Open Source Pledge. <br><a href="https://osspledge.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">osspledge.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>If your institution uses <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> software, it should chip in to pay for it.</p><p>We can extend the idea to the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenInfrastructure</span></a> supporting <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> to research. First, institutions should use open rather than proprietary <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> (see e.g. the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a>, Recommendation 1). Second, when they use it, they should chip in to pay for it. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/openscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>openscience</span></a></span></p>
petersuber<p>One of the strongest objections to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APCs</span></a> is that they exclude large numbers of scholarly authors on economic grounds, unrelated to the merit of their work. (See e.g. the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a>, recommendation 3.)</p><p>A new study argues that this exclusion shows up in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CitationBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CitationBias</span></a> against authors from the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GlobalSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalSouth</span></a>. The bias itself is well-documented and the authors argue that the rise of APCs is one factor in explaining it. <br><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665944124000142" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S2665944124000142</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholComm</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>2/ This one of those good ideas that would benefit everyone but for which nearly everyone finds it hard to go first. (For many people this is the definition of a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CollectiveAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CollectiveAction</span></a> problem.)</p><p>It would contribute in a small way to the largest need of research <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/assessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assessment</span></a> reform, namely (in the words of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a>), "for research assessment committees to pay less attention to where research is published and more attention to the quality of research itself."<br><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. For a critique of "transformative" or read-and-publish agreements, see Recommendation 4 of the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement. (Disclosure: I helped write this.) <a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">budapestopenaccessinitiative.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/boai20/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APCs</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DiamondOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiamondOA</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenOA</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/openscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>openscience</span></a></span></p>
BOAI<p>Congratulations to a Faculty Committee at the University of Rhode Island for calling for the closure of the university's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> Fund which supports APCs. The Committee argues that "rather than covering APC expenses of a small number of URI faculty, OA Fund resources should be redirected toward efforts that will have greater impact." </p><p>These actions align with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a> Recommendations to move away from APCs. </p><p>Full report: <a href="https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED650495.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED6</span><span class="invisible">50495.pdf</span></a></p>
SPARC<p>ICYMI....Here's a great post by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@MelissaHagemann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MelissaHagemann</span></a></span> on the anniversary of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a> Recommendations. Today, over half of all scholarly journal articles are freely available for anyone. More work is needed ensure systems to support <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> are truly equitable.<br><a href="https://sparcopen.org/news/2024/open-access-as-a-means-to-equity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sparcopen.org/news/2024/open-a</span><span class="invisible">ccess-as-a-means-to-equity/</span></a></p>
BOAI<p>On the 2nd anniv of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a> Recommendations, <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@MelissaHagemann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MelissaHagemann</span></a></span> offers insights on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> as a means to equity.</p><p>Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sparc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sparc</span></a></span>, @petersuber and the whole BOAI20 Steering Committee which developed the BOAI20 Recommendations. </p><p><a href="https://sparcopen.org/news/2024/open-access-as-a-means-to-equity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sparcopen.org/news/2024/open-a</span><span class="invisible">ccess-as-a-means-to-equity/</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@MelissaHagemann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MelissaHagemann</span></a></span> for her new blog post on the 20th anniversary recommendations from the Budapest Open Access Initiative (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@BOAI" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BOAI</span></a></span>).<br><a href="https://sparcopen.org/news/2024/open-access-as-a-means-to-equity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sparcopen.org/news/2024/open-a</span><span class="invisible">ccess-as-a-means-to-equity/</span></a></p><p>“<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a>) is not an end in itself, but a means to other ends, above all, to the equity, quality, usability, and sustainability of research. We must assess the growth of OA against the gains and losses for these further ends.”</p><p>(Disclosure: I participated in drafting the recommendations.)</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BOAI20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOAI20</span></a></p>
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