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"Hanson believes the problem is not open access and APCs per se, but for-profit publishers that seek to publish as many papers as possible. He believes the strain on academic publishing could be substantially alleviated if funding agencies stipulated that the work they support must be published in non-profit journals." #scholarled #diamond #openaccess
theguardian.com/science/2025/j

The Guardian · Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions publishedBy Ian Sample
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Update. Here are two new bits on this story:
medpagetoday.com/washington-wa

* #NIH director Jay Bhattacharya has been railing against #APCs in conservative news outlets like Charlie Kirk and the Disinformation Chronicle. It looks like opposition to APCs is a warmly received #MAGA talking point. It's almost as if #Republicans supported equity and equitable access but didn't want to use those words.

* The NIH plans to set the APC cap by this by October, at the start of its 2026 fiscal year.

www.medpagetoday.comNIH to Cap How Much Journals Can Charge Authors for Open AccessExact amount still to be determined, agency says

Spannende Neuerscheinung:

Partizipativ? Demokratisch? Gesellschaft im Wandel!

Ausgangspunkt für die Sammlung dieser Beiträge ist das Bestreben, die bereits vorhandenen Ansätze zur Umsetzung, Stärkung und Weiterentwicklung der Menschenrechts- und Demokratiebildung in schulischen und außerschulischen Lernfeldern sichtbar zu machen und zur Diskussion zu stellen.

Auf die Open Access Version gibt es Zugriff über die Website der PH Steiermark
phst.at/forschung/forschungser