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Posts about zero-embargo green open access written by Mike Masnick

Posts about acs publishing written by Mike Masnick

All the editors and their entire editorial board resigned after Elsevier refused to make Lingua fully open access and to transfer ownership of the 66-year-old journal to them.

Many fear a lawsuit from early in the pandemic could destroy the Internet Archive. Here’s what’s really going on.

Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.

High APCs Are a Feature, Not a Bug 14/12/2020 There has been some outrage at the announcement that  Nature is following through with their 2004 declaration of charging ~10k ($/€) in article processing charges (APCs). However, not only have these charges been 16 years in the making but the original declaration was made not on some obscure blog, but at a UK parliamentary inquiry. So nobody could rightfully claim that we couldn’t have seen this development coming from miles aw...