Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their libraries

Re:Universities have disinvested from their presses just as ... by tw4l on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:07PM (#37694169)

They could! They'd have to also change how faculty review and tenure work, to incentivize faculty to publish in alternative open access journals instead of the top (paywalled) journals in their field. Otherwise, faculty will continue publishing with the for-profit publishers even if there's alternatives available.

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Re:Universities have disinvested from their presses just as ... by elashri on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:46PM (#37694777)

There are a for proft open access journals. In most open access journals, the payment system is just reversed. The author/s pay a huge amount of money as publication fees (usually a couple of thousands) instead of readers (or their institutions) paying for the article or the journal subscription.

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Re:Universities have disinvested from their presses just as ... by UncleMeat on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:56PM (#37695720)

Heck, even the widely hated publishing companies offer open access. It just costs thousands of dollars for an article and tens of thousands of dollars for a book.

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Re:Universities have disinvested from their presses just as ... by zx8080 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:19PM (#37696029)

Why would any researcher want to pay it?

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Re:Universities have disinvested from their presses just as ... by elashri on Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:28PM (#37696137)

Most of the time, it is not even up to the researchers to decide that. Open access is usually a requirement by the funding agencies. For example, in the US all federally funded research will be required to be published on open access journals and will be enforced at the end of 2025[1]

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp...

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