Post AxppdcNnAbiTcL1fhg by brembs@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AxppdVyP05qFjr6JIO by brembs@mastodon.social
       2025-09-03T12:31:02Z
       
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       This should have been big news!Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in English:https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint-commitment-to-strengthening-open-research-europehttps://www.fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assina-declaracao-fortalecimento-open-research-europe-ore/and one more, NWO from 🇳🇱  considers joining:https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-joining-open-access-platform-open-research-europe-oreWhy is this BIG? 1/4#openscience #openaccess
       
 (DIR) Post #AxppdcNnAbiTcL1fhg by brembs@mastodon.social
       2025-09-03T12:31:02Z
       
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       1. This development essentially entails that all authors in the participating countries now have a venue where they can publish #openaccess without any fees.2. The vision is to develop Open Research Europe (ORE) "as a collective non-profit open access publishing service for the public good". https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/3603e219-6a65-11ef-a8ba-01aa75ed71a1/language-en 2/4
       
 (DIR) Post #Axppdi8llNGTTU2l7Y by brembs@mastodon.social
       2025-09-03T12:31:03Z
       
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       3. As we outline in our article, such a decentralized public infrastructure can be highly resilient against not only natural or political disasters, but also "against corporate capture and surveillance technologies":https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.2302064. If/when funding agencies realize that maintaining funding for legacy journals directly counteracts the goals they signed onto with their support of ORE, the legacy journals stand to suffer massive drops in revenue.What can YOU do?3/4#academicchatter
       
 (DIR) Post #Axppdnp8dH7v6KuAM4 by brembs@mastodon.social
       2025-09-03T12:31:05Z
       
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       Here are two easy things YOU can do:#1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same.#2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above and ask them to support ORE, too.#3 Make *everyone* and every institution aware that they now have a choice: support parasitic corporations or the public good. By their actions you shall know them!
       
 (DIR) Post #Axr2xtMTFLMUd6MijQ by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
       2025-09-04T06:49:36.663243Z
       
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       If the NWO joins, I'm in 💯