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Nov 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Feeling sad. Yesterday, I resigned as an associate editor from Royal Society Open Science bc they will be part of Read & Publish contracts from Jan 2021 (royalsociety.org/journals/libra…)
I will also no longer review or submit articles there. (a thread) #BulliedIntoBadScience
RSOS & @RSocPublishing kindly engaged w me on the topic & asked what they could do to change my mind. I asked them to exclude RSOS from all R&P contracts. It’s not going to happen, but discussion further clarified why contracts r bad
Read & Publish/transformative agreements = #Hybrid2.0 bc subscriptions are combined with APCs + #BigDeal2.0 bc universities are locked into a contract with a publisher that involves a bundle of journals at prices divorced from actual costs. (a thread...) #BulliedIntoBadScience
Read & Publish/transformative agreements =
worse than previous #Hybrid & #BigDeals bc they ADD a BARRIER: pay to publish AND pay to read. Publishers "promise" they will flip all journals to 100% OA eventually docs.google.com/document/d/1TU… #BulliedIntoBadScience