NEW: The NIH just started requiring NIH-funded research to be made freely, immediately available. In response, some journals are forcing scientists to pay thousands in open-access fees to publish. The result: chaos. The fees, one scholar says, are “out of control.” www.chronicle.com/article/maki...
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In a year of highly unreliable federal funding, scientists say they're stressed about spending precious grant dollars on fees imposed by billion-dollar publishers like Springer Nature and Elsevier. “They’re responsible to shareholders, and not to the research community,” says an open-science expert.
The NIH should publish all of it on their own webpage in order to put it out there for free.
I guess in some sense it was paid for by overhead before. Libraries subscribing to the journals were not direct costs (not sure if universities libraries are paid by indirects, just speculation) Now they are part of your directs. Is that what happened? And PIs have less leverage than libraries? ⬆️$⬆️