Japan's push to make all research open access

Re:Japan's push to make all research open access by mfld on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:40AM (#40533781)

I don't get it. Ditching publishers to fund expert communities? Shouldn't there be some form of organisation that connects those experts, selects some as journal editors, provides infrastructure for submission/review/paper access, etc? If yes, wouldn't "publisher" be suitable term for such an organisation?

There exist publishers that, instead of being part of big media outlets, a run by research organizations themselves (e.g. EMBO press). I agree that it would be nice if more would be published there.

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Re:Japan's push to make all research open access by low_tech_love on Friday May 31, 2024 @09:48AM (#40535106)

I mean in the same way communities organize conferences regularly without becoming publishers. Anyway if you want to call them publishers fine, as long as they are not giant behemoths who feed on large amounts of public money to do nothing.

At least when publishing was an actual market (instead of being just a money sink) the publishers had to actually do their job to survive.

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