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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)
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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

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I added these clarifications in a new section at my and @DieterLukas’s analysis of Read & Publish / Transformative agreements: “These agreements restrict competition because they are CONTRACTS...”
docs.google.com/document/d/1TU…
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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...)
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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…
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Goal of original #Hybrid was to flip all journals to 100% OA. Remember what happened with that? Publishers made much more money off of hybrid & didn't flip. Good for business, bad for academia & the public
See Bernhard Mittermaier: juser.fz-juelich.de/record/190180/…
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