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I'm concerned that this will do nothing but result in fewer government awards and make non-governmental research more difficult to access. This directive still
by sgent 4y ago
I'm concerned that this will do nothing but result in fewer government awards and make non-governmental research more difficult to access. This directive still allows journals to charge open access publishing fees, which often exceed 12,000k, and allow grantees to add this to their grants, resulting in fewer grants.
In addition, there will be no upper limit on open access fees, so privately funded
research will essentially be required to opt for closed access publishing so they can avoid the fees. This means it will save nothing for most users of these journals (academics) since now they will have to pay to publish and subscribe.
- ImPostingOnHN 4y agoso you're saying this doesn't change anything with regards to fees, how will it then lead to a decrease in grants?
- sgent 4y agoCurrently government funded research is either open access (and pays the fee) or is closed access for 1 year then becomes open (and is not subject to fees). Now all government research will have to pay open access fees, and the new guidance allows them to request additional funding for open access fees. Currently the government ranks all grant applications, and funds everyone until it runs out of money. Under the new system it will run out of money sooner -- especially for smaller grant programs for early career grad students and undergrads.
- ImPostingOnHN 4y agoah, gotcha, you're saying that the fees that publishers charge will eat into the funding for the science itself that makes sense, they should charge less, or none, and we should fund more