{"id":3170,"date":"2023-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pl-asapbio.local\/eu-council-no-pay-publishing-model-is-realistic\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:30:43","slug":"eu-council-no-pay-publishing-model-is-realistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/eu-council-no-pay-publishing-model-is-realistic\/","title":{"rendered":"EU council \u2018no pay\u2019 publishing model is realistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"m_3777751411703515053docs-internal-guid-2c55fffc-7fff-7e12-7ede-58a647d483c7\"><em>This post originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/olivierpourret.wordpress.com\/2023\/09\/09\/eu-council-no-pay-publishing-model-is-realistic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olivier Pourret\u2019s blog<\/a><\/em> <em>and in Indonesian on <a href=\"http:\/\/dasaptaerwin.net\/wp\/2023\/09\/eu-council-no-pay-publishing-model-is-realistic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dasapta Erwin Irawan\u2019s blog<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#dadada\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Authors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"has-background wp-block-list\" style=\"background-color:#dadada\">\n<li>Olivier Pourret \u2013 UniLaSalle, Beauvais, France \u2013&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:olivier.pourret@unilasalle.fr\" target=\"_blank\">olivier.pourret@unilasalle.fr<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 ORCID 0000-0001-6181-6079<\/li>\n<li>Dasapta Erwin Irawan \u2013 Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:dasaptaerwin@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dasaptaerwin@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 ORCID 0000-0002-1526-0863<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Polka \u2013 ASAPbio, San Francisco, CA, USA \u2013&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:jessica.polka@asapbio.org\" target=\"_blank\">jessica.polka@asapbio.org<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 ORCID 0000-0001-6610-9293<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-01810-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katharine Sanderson,<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cpublishing-industry representatives warn\u201d that May\u2019s EU Council call for a \u201cno pay\u201d academic publishing model is \u201cunrealistic and lack[ing] detail\u201d. However, the proposal is already being implemented via several approaches:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(i) Authors can publish their work for free in \u2018Diamond\u2019 Open Access (OA) journals. According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doaj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Directory of Open Access Journals<\/a>, in 2023 67.5% of fully OA journals do not levy article processing charges, and most of them are published by university press.<\/p>\n<p>(ii) The European Commission has launched a publishing platform, Open Research Europe, an OA publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and\/or Euratom funding.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(iii) Preprints are rising in many disciplines and several new initiatives (such as Peer Community In, Review Commons, and RRID) organize peer review on preprints at no cost to authors or readers.<\/p>\n<p>(iv) New publishing models such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/subscribetoopencommunity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe to Open<\/a>&nbsp;enable journals to flip to OA while retaining library support.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many of these are already supported directly by institutions, governments, or private funders, and they are here to stay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is up to us, researchers and policy makers, to make sure we support \u201cno pay\u201d solutions where they exist. Scientific knowledge is a public good, and it should be treated as such.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@yogidan2012?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniele Levis Pelusi<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/OgZb4X8-IdA?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared on Olivier Pourret\u2019s blog and in Indonesian on Dasapta Erwin Irawan\u2019s blog. Authors Olivier Pourret \u2013 UniLaSalle, Beauvais, France \u2013&nbsp;olivier.pourret@unilasalle.fr&nbsp;\u2013 ORCID 0000-0001-6181-6079 Dasapta Erwin Irawan \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asapbio-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}