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"All agencies will fully implement updated policies, including ending the optional 12-month embargo, no later than December 31, 2025." Why does this need a 3 year transition period? Six months would be plenty.
Imagine doing all that work for nothing, as there was societal collapse just around the corner!
Seems like a good thing. Any downsides to this? Any low hanging fruit it misses in making research more open access?
the publication fees (paid by the authors) seem to be considerably higher
[1] https://www.relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/re... (page 23)
So, there's a few issues that I'm concerned about. First, it's not clear to me that university libraries will be able to drop their subscriptions to these journals based on this decision. The vast majority of research receives some federal funding, but there will still be some subset of articles that are funded through private research grants and will still sit behind a paywall. Journal subscriptions are a huge drag on library budgets, so freeing that money up would be immensely beneficial. Second, I can see the journals reacting to this by going full open access, but charging massive "fees" to publish. Right now Nature charges >$10k to publish open access, and I'd expect them to ratchet that up as it becomes their primary vector to siphon tax payer money into their own pockets. This seems to be the playbook based on the European "Plan S" push for open access.
"All agencies will fully implement updated policies, including ending the optional 12-month embargo, no later than December 31, 2025." Why does this need a 3 year transition period? Six months would be plenty.
> Why does this need a 3 year transition period? Six months would be plenty. For the same reason aircraft carriers need five miles to stop - it’s a really big ship and there’s an extraordinary amount of inertia to be overcome.
Now do patents.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why does this need a 3 year transition period? Six months would be plenty. For the same reason aircraft carriers need five miles to stop - it’s a really big ship and there’s an extraordinary amount of inertia to be overcome.
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"All agencies will fully implement updated policies, including ending the optional 12-month embargo, no later than December 31, 2025." Why does this need a 3 year transition period? Six months would be plenty.
Seems like a good thing. Any downsides to this? Any low hanging fruit it misses in making research more open access?
the publication fees (paid by the authors) seem to be considerably higher
Seems like a good thing. Any downsides to this? Any low hanging fruit it misses in making research more open access?
That doesn't mean this isn't worth doing (it is), but it's going to be a thing.
It's funny how the political class understands the things like this that need to be done, they just don't care at all until they are heading into an election cycle they are about to lose. Then suddenly the political will is suddenly found.