I don’t want to justify this, but we can only be mad at ourselves, right? We are the ones who have come to value fancy labels over content, and NN is just holding up the mirror. I am not excluding myself from this criticism of course.
I don’t want to justify this, but we can only be mad at ourselves, right? We are the ones who have come to value fancy labels over content, and NN is just holding up the mirror. I am not excluding myself from this criticism of course.
Ad 1: In light of the hyper-competition for grants, positions and papers, I doubt the label fixation will go away. Maybe not place it in the hands of a capitalistic company that maximizes profit ?
Ad 2: grant agencies that require open access publishing (e.g. @ERC_Research ) should place a cap on max amount to be spent of APCs?
@nico_schuck @ERC_Research This seems the most realistic short-term solution to the APC explosion, although it would require collaboration of institutions (otherwise the fees just become “overhead”). I have seen grant guidelines with a 10k APC cap (per grant, not article), wonder if the enforcement works?