MCP___ @mcp_@qoto.org

#12gennaio allarme Usa sull’incompatibilità tra armare Ucraina e le proprie truppe. Colpa dell’industria bellica che non investe per produrre di più nonostante il business garantito per i prossimi anni.
Che affare è la guerra!

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/01/navy-secretary-warns-if-defense-industry-cant-boost-production-arming-both-ukraine-and-us-may-become-challenging/381722/

🚨 BREAKING: SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT REJECTS NEW OIL AND GAS

🧡 In a huge win for people that like affordable energy and a liveable climate, the Scottish Government has announced their energy strategy will focus on new renewables, rejecting dirty fuels.

https://buff.ly/3Zq23jV

#Ilva, #Peacelink: Dl che reintroduce scudo penale grave intromissione ad autonomia della magistratura – trmtv
https://www.trmtv.it/scienza-e-salute/ambiente/2023_01_07/359379.html

L'11 gennaio 2013 diventava insopportabile per Aaron Swartz il peso dell'oppressione e della persecuzione subita per aver immaginato e praticato con un decennio di anticipo quella che oggi chiamiamo #OpenScience.

L'amico @berny ha curato nel 2015 un volume open content al quale ho contribuito con la Postfazione.

E' una raccolta di traduzioni di testi di Aaron con contributi di autori italiani. Buona lettura!

https://aaronswartztributo.tumblr.com/

https://archive.org/details/aaron-swartz-1986-2013/page/2/mode/2up

Microsoft ending support for #Proprietary Windows 7 and 8: it's about control! Who's in control of your company's, school's, government's -- *your* software? With #FreeSoftware, it's *you* who chooses when and how to "discontinue." #CloseWindows https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/windows

These two pieces in #Nature blissfully pass aside several decades of philosophy and sociology of science on the nature of the present crisis (pardon, on why science is no longer 'disruptive' [sic])

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5

@SFuntowicz @mcp_

Commented at the journal.

Here's a good article on the #ALLEA recommendations (above).
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/european-academies-hit-out-high-author-charges-open-access-publishing

Quoting Bernt Hugenholtz: "These publishers basically disseminate content that is either completely ready for publication or near-ready for publication…We are moving in the right direction with #openaccess but we have to solve this remuneration problem or, more radically, abandon cooperation with publishers if they are going to keep asking such outrageous publication fees.”

#APCs

Indeed, there does seem to be some consensus slowly building:

"This confluence of ideas suggests that there is a growing consensus that the traditional framework of scholarly publishing is not well-suited to solve the needs of scholarly communication in our current environment"

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6948199

The propose a very attractive perspective that chimes with a lot of recent ideas and proposals: scholarly records management

#openscience #openaccess

Perché conoscere e far conoscere quanto spendiamo per gli APC? Una risposta che viene dalla Francia
La quantità e la qualità dei dati, la loro velocità possono essere elementi posti al servizio della crescita delle persone e delle comunità. Possono consentire di superare arretratezze e divari, semplificare la vita dei cittadini e modernizzare la nostra società. Occorre compiere scelte a
https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/monitorare-per-impostare-le-politiche/
#Notizie ##openscience #APC #FAIRdata

Cambridge university press is now imposing transformative agreements. My university managed to get a subscription-only deal for one more year.

I also heard that Sweden now operates exclusively with transformative agreements.

Predatory publishers keep exploiting public funds dedicated to research over and over again. It's greed over reason, profit over research, discrimination over openness and inclusively, oppression over choice. It's disgusting.

"Se hai un'idea la esprimi in modo garbato, costruisci consenso per vincere le elezioni, e dai banchi del governo potrai cambiare quello che ti pare". Gli amici della #nonviolenza rifiutano questa mentalità e credono nell'"omnicrazia", ovvero nel potere di incidere sulla realtà che ha ogni persona con luna azione diretta improntata ai principi della nonviolenza, assumendosi pienamente le responsabilità di tali azioni. Se rifiutate quel potere, almeno non giudicate chi lo esercita.

Now we have a national estimation of the total cost for article processing charges, 30M€ / year (France). The cost has tripled in ten years. The cost will probably double again in the next decade...
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RT @ouvrirlascience
How much do APCs cost French research institutions?
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs of article processing charges and predicts their evolution by 2…
https://twitter.com/ouvrirlascience/status/1610648985366052864

If I needed more signs to persuade me that moving to Mastodon was the right choice, this is definitely one: “Twitter will once again allow political ads” https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-will-once-again-allow-political-ads