ThoughI am fully behind Open Access, I do not think that the simple flipping of the current corrupt system of subscription-based publishing to OA is anything worth paying even more public money for. In fact, it will be highly dangerous, by generating a soothing illusion of ope...
First, they could stop paying APCs for their grantees. Instead, they could add a fixed sum onto all grants they make — $1,500, say — and leave it up to the researchers whether to spend more on a legacy publisher (supplementing the $1,500 from other sources of their own) or to s...
“you don’t realize that funders have a lot of power, but you don’t realize the power that you have, but who populates these editorial boards of all these journals. You are these peoples. So you have a lot of power there as well because without a good editor...