https://www.alojapan.com/1282878/dsei-japan-2025-patria-makes-progress-in-japan/ DSEI Japan 2025: Patria makes progress in Japan #AMVXP #APC #DSEIJapan2025 #Japan #JapanGroundSelfDefenseForce #JapanNews #JapanSteelWorks #Japanese #JapaneseNews #JGSDF #news #Patria The JGSDF will receive the Patria AMV XP as a replacement for its Type 96 8×8 vehicles. (Patria) The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s (JGSDF) selection of the AMV XP 8×8 armoured vehicle in 2022, and a subsequent contract in 2023, has given Finnish firm Patria…

Australian Potash ( #APC ) has released " Quarterly Activities and Cashflow Reports " on Wed 30 Apr at 08:22 AEST #tax #government #Mining #Gold #Australia
https://grafa.com/asset/australian-potash-ltd-5486-apc.asx?utm_source=asxmktsensitive&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=apc.asx

Tinubu’s Alleged Meeting with Fubara Sparks Speculation https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/04/tinubus-alleged-meeting-with-fubara.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Nigeria #Tinubu #Fubara #Politics #APC

[Listening] Webinaire #ToutlAO #OAW25 "L'option de la non-cession exclusive des droits : un outil pour l'accès ouvert immédiat des publications scientifiques", avec Benoit Pier (croisé à Centrale Lyon jadis !).
=> insoutenables #APC fr. ! (43 millions pour la #france, données Couperin)
#openaccess #openscience #costofknowledge #cost #publishing #cOAlitionS #ANR

Our #APC analysis preprint was cited in a Wall Street Journal story today, along with Elsevier's response.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/scientific-journals-quality-publishers-6399fc95?st=NQ8a7Z

Since #PHP's #APC seems to be discontinued? Are folks using the #PECL http://pecl.php.net/package/APCu for #performance?

Ugh. Stupid APC UPS with it's proprietary network card and screwball console interface. I bought a secondhand network card for my UPSes, and one of them has a non-default password set.

The password reset procedure is a pain in the ass, and involved a cursed console cable.

Wir laden herzlich zur Veranstaltung “OA Datenpraxis Webinar: Erfassung von Publikationskosten an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen in Deutschland” ein.
In dem Webinar werden erstmals Ergebnisse einer Umfrage vorgestellt, die 2024 durchgeführt wurde.

28.03.2025 von 10:00 bis 11:00 CET
Informationen zum Programm und Anmeldung: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_pKTlDzjsQwC7QspLxwMHCg
Informationen zur Umfrage: https://infomgnt.org/posts/2024-09-30-survey-announcement-publication-costs/

Évaluations HCERES : la pensée tableur en action pour imposer l’approche par compétences dans les formations ?

Via le SNESup-FSU Université de Lille
https://fsu.univ-lille.fr/spip.php?article301

Dans @AOC_media : "Derrière la promesse de l’open access, la marchandisation renouvelée de l’édition scientifique"
https://aoc.media/analyse/2025/02/16/derriere-la-promesse-de-lopen-access-la-marchandisation-renouvelee-de-ledition-scientifique/ (actuellement en libre accès)
Historique rapide, le cas MDIP, zones grises, évaluation de la recherche, etc.
"Ce n’est pas l’open access en tant que tel qui est à l’origine de la situation décrite : bien des formats d’édition (revues « diamant », dépôt légal en ligne) permettent d’en développer les vertus sans générer les exagérations décrites dans cet article, à commencer par la trivialisation de la publication."
#OA #OpenScience #APC

2027: Politicians joining APC because of “stomach infrastructure” – Tambuwal: Aminu Tambuwal, the former governor of Sokoto State, stated that no politician with a conscience would align themselves with the All Progressives Congress (APC) given the current economic challenges in the country. Tambuwal made these remarks in response to the recent trend of PDP members defecting to the ruling party, citing “stomach infrastructure”… https://creebhills.com/2025/02/2027-politicians-joining-apc-tambuwal?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #APC #politics #Nigeria #Tambuwal #economy

Ukraine Daily summary - Tuesday, February 11 2025

https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20Tuesday,%20February%2011%202025/

The _Journal of Optical Microsystems_ has been an #APC-based #OpenAccess journal. It knows that its APCs have excluded authors unable to find funding and it wants to solve that problem. But its solution is to switch to #hybrid — removing the APC for some articles but removing OA for the same articles.
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-optical-microsystems/volume-5/issue-01/010101/Accessibility-and-Open-Access/10.1117/1.JOM.5.1.010101.full

The editorial announcing the change describes #DiamondOA, among other approaches. So we know that the journal knows about the model, and knows that it could remove APCs and keep OA at the same time. But the journal did not choose diamond OA and the editorial doesn't explain why.

Steel Eagle ER (extended range) #Finnish #Ukrainian developed #drone armed with #clusterbomb that can penetrate the armor of #APC or similarly armored vehicles. One drone can eliminate #orcs in a 2000 sqm area around the drone.

Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20139829

Info: https://www.insta.fi/en/defence-and-aviation/news/news/patented-charge-and-new-drone-insta-steel-eagle-er

22 minutes sur la surproduction scientifique, avec Laurent Romary :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPPbsqcZ4Ew
#APC #openaccess #science

Publisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resign

Walled Culture has noted previously the fabulous levels of profit that many academic publishers have achieved, largely through the abuse of copyright, as explained in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions). And yet those levels are apparently not enough for perhaps the most successful of the academic publishers, Elsevier. A story on the site Retraction Watch reports on the mass […]

#academicPublishing #AccessToKnowledge #accessibility #ai #apc #copyediting #editing #elsevier #journals #openAccess #production #profits #resignations #retractions #subscriptions

https://walledculture.org/publishers-cost-cutting-including-the-botched-use-of-ai-pushes-editors-of-top-journal-to-resign/

The editorial board of the 52-yr old _Journal of Human Evolution_ just resigned to protest #Elsevier's interference with editorial practices, reducing journal quality, and insistence on a high #APC ($3990), reducing its affordability to authors in the field. "We all care deeply about the journal, our discipline, and our academic community; however, we find we can no longer work with Elsevier in good conscience."
https://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Social-Media-Statement-re-JHE-Resignations.pdf

There's no sign yet that the editors will launch a new #OpenAccess journal somewhere else. So I've not yet added it to the #OAD list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence

I just got two pieces of #spam in one week from _Medical Sciences_, an #MDPI journal. The first invited me to submit an article and offered me a discount on its #APC. The second nagged me for not responding to the first.

I'm not a medical researcher. My fields are philosophy, law, and open access. This is easy to discover in a simple web search.

If this medical journal knows my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me? If it doesn't know my fields, then why is it soliciting an article from me?

Does it realize that its emails prove that it's spamming researchers at random without knowing the first thing about them?

I'm sure you get this kind of spam too. When you find time, I urge you to post about it and name names.

I don't do this often enough. Here are two earlier examples.
* July 2017
https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143629/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/CcyhJ7NudEh
* June 2018
https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143627/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/6DfDZABMNSv