applied for a grant last month, now to finalize grant you need to publish things in open access format. (EU country; there’s a push for all publicly funded research to be open access, with it being a requirement from year ??? on, not sure when, but soon) there’s some special funding set aside just for open access fees, which is still rotten because these leeches still stand to profit. then, if you miss that, then there’s an agreement where my uni pays a selection of publishers to let in certain number of articles per year open access, which is basically the same thing but with different source of funding (not from grant, but straight from ministry)
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angrymouse@lemmy.world 1 week ago100% ppl need stop thinking big changes can be made “by individuals”, this kind of stuff needs regulation and state alternatives or is impossible to break as an average worker.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Exactly. Asking some grad student to take on these ancient, corrupt publishing systems is ridiculous