This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.
"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.
In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/
@petersuber Open access is certainly desirable, no author fees obviously sounds good, and I agree that if it would be better if journals were not-for-profit ventures, but I'm unclear how the significant work performed by the journal staff will be funded if we remove both embargoes and author fees.
@internic @petersuber What significant work?
@internic @petersuber
That work could be done by university library staff, for example.
I feel like if APCs had been at a level that appeared reasonable to authors and publishers had given the impression that they were honest actors rather behaving like bridge trolls we wouldn't be in this situation.