No Fee Science

To solve the problems facing our planetary home, we need public trust. For that, we need #openscience. Don't just #MarchForScience...#MarchForBetterScience!

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

"Politicians! #Listentothescientists and take #climateaction!"
"And scientists! #Listentothepeople and #openscience!"

#grevepourleclimat et #scienceouverte... même combat!
@ouvrirlascience @HackYourPhd @LaPaillasse @ScienceOuverte @bernardrentier
https://t.co/CBVuz4Pynf

[Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning]

Now is an exciting time to be preparing a new open publishing platform (https://t.co/bKEKhtSTxS). Feels like there's something in the air. We're finally reaching breaking point with big commercial publishers. 🎉

Hoping to start building it in earnest some time this year. 🤞

[Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning]

A short argument for why I think the big publishers cannot be part of a publishing reform effort. See the full (but still short) article over on Mastodon at https://t.co/MbbH0aMKmL or below for a short summary.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

It's time to leverage the billions taxpayers give to government research for public use. Enter #DemocracysLibrary https://t.co/w3eiNC074T

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

@neuralreckoning Well, in that case! 🥳

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

Are we allowed be excited?

Yes.

[Neuromatch @neuromatch]

We believe

💎 Everyone should be able to read and publish research for free

🌍 Research publishing should be commonly owned and run, not for profit

🔢 All data should be open and re-usable

We are delighted to announce a new open publishing initiative

https://t.co/Uk4iO7voQW

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

Read and approved. Calling on all signatories of #NoFeeScience to read and add their voices to this appeal from @neuromatch.

[Neuromatch @neuromatch]

Scholars in all disciplines & countries, we invite you to sign this open letter to @WHOSTP calling for equitable access & participation in research for all

Why we think you should sign
https://t.co/VzgUMMxdnk

Or go straight to the letter
https://t.co/Yok9PzAeso

#OSTPLetter

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

@chartgerink https://t.co/EW1o0Tbzd3

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of for-profit publishers is that good researchers do nothing."
- Popular proverb (paraphrased).

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

And yet we still see regular 'good news' tweets like this from academics:

"Happy to say Wiley have just agreed to take my research hostage! Watch this space to find out when and how you can pay off part of its ever-increasing, ever-altering ransom!"

[Karen Kohn @kkohn00]

In June my library was told that Wiley would be removing 1,379 ebooks from our subscription packages. Because many of these books were heavily used, we looked into purchasing them with perpetual access but were told they were considered textbooks. #librarians 1/2

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

"Dear Author,

Why not celebrate your latest contribution to Springer Nature's ongoing shakedown of academia with this ungainly memento?

Springer Nature: Come for the over-priced prestige, stay for the over-priced tat!"

[Matt Sleat @MattSleat]

What fresh hell is this?

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of for-profit publishers is that good researchers do nothing."
- Popular proverb (paraphrased).

[Dr Danny Kingsley (she/her) @dannykay68]

@bc_butler OH HONESTLY! This is EXACTLY the same hand wringing that went along when Plan S was first mooted several years ago. Societies saying they hadn't been part of the discussion. I say now as I said then: You have had two DECADES to contribute to this debate, don't play dumb now.

[Neil Malhotra @namalhotra]

I am excited to announce the launch of Aletheia, a new platform for communicating peer-evaluated research. My collaborator on this project is @JakeJares. https://t.co/07HozdOIaQ 1/14

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

Clipping the wings of talent and hoodwinking true vision for over 50 years.

High time for science to leave this particular building...

#Elvis

[@olivierpourret.bsky.social @olivier_pourret]

Upset by the email send by @frontiersin entitled "Join Dr. Jonathan P. Tennant at Frontiers in Environmental Science as Associate Editor"

Very inappropriate!!!

RIP @Protohedgehog
cc @Rebeccatennan10

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

Good.

Now we can shift our focus to moving away from the profit-driven academic publishing model altogether. Open Access is just one (important) step along the way, but by itself it won't even make a dent in the amount of public money being siphoned off into private profit.

[ScienceInsider @ScienceInsider]

BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

We underestimate the damning indictment of the scientific enterprise that is incarnated in the existence of paywalls (still omnipresent during any literature research activity, layperson or academic).

#NoFeeScience
#MarchForBetterScience

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

As we highlighted 2 yrs ago, many climate science studies are also locked behind paywalls, which is ultimately of much greater urgency than monkeypox *even if* worst predictions of latter transpire.

Current model of publication is immoral, full stop.
https://t.co/00ntO1rq2u

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

“I pledge to the greatest of my ability, to continue to maintain integrity in my relationship to knowledge, to my methods & to my results*.”

*which are the collective fruit & shared intellectual property of all humanity
(if we could add one little thing!)
https://t.co/bPZsYKge0S

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

Pendant que l'Europe crame, un retour opportun vers notre texte chez @Reporterre de 2019, où nous avons souligné le décalage entre ce que la communauté scientifique doit à l'humanité et ce qu'elle lui demande à l'égard du climat :
https://t.co/qckViVua8w

[No Fee Science @NoFee_Science]

“I pledge to the greatest of my ability, to continue to maintain integrity in my relationship to knowledge, to my methods & to my results*.”

*which are the collective fruit & shared intellectual property of all humanity
(if we could add one little thing!)
https://t.co/bPZsYKge0S