The French Academy of Sciences and the CNRS have signed a co-publishing agreement to develop a model of diamond open access scientific publishing, free for both authors and readers. This initiative, which takes the form of the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, aims to offer an ethical and equitable alternative to the growing dependence of the international research community on commercial publishers.

cnrs.fr/en/node/12218

#openaccess #diamondopenaccess #scientificpublishing

L’Académie des sciences et le CNRS s’unissent pour développer un modèle de publication en libre accès sans frais, ni pour le lecteur ni pour l'auteur.

Dans un contexte où la diffusion des savoirs est fragilisée par un modèle économique déséquilibré, l’Académie des sciences et le CNRS signent un accord de coédition pour développer un modèle de publication scientifique en libre accès diamant, gratuit…

^CNRS

Scientific publishing may be the biggest scam you've never heard of. A billion-dollar industry built on free labor and public money—then sold back to us at a markup. It's not just broken. It's sabotaging progress.
#Science #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

zmescience.com/science/news-sc…

We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage

Your tax dollars fund the research. You pay again to read it.

^{Mihai Andrei (ZME Science)}

Does anyone have access to doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-029…, this is a comment in Science titled "Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach". Couldn’t find it in the usual places.

#science #openscience #openaccess #research

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